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SPED Book Chapter 6
Highlighted Vocabulary Terms in Chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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Speech Disorder | Refers to difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality (for example, a hoarse voice) or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering |
Language Disorder | Is difficulty in receiving, understanding, and formulating ideas and information |
Receptive Language Disorder | Is characterized by difficulty in receiving or understanding information |
Expressive Language Disorder | Is characterized by difficulty in formulating ideas and information |
Cleft Palate/Lip | Describes a condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or the upper lip |
Dialect | Is a regional variation of a language, as when someone speaks English using terms or pronunciations common only in that region |
Speech | Is the oral expression of language. The disorder may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations |
Language | Is a structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communicating |
Phonology | Is the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
Phonemes | Are individual speech sounds and how they are produced, depending on their placement in a syllable or word |
Morphology | Is the system that governs the structure of words |
Morpheme | Is the smallest meaningful unit of speech |
Syntax | Provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
Semantics | Refers to the meaning of what is expressed |
Pragmatics | Refers to the use of communication in context |
Social Interaction Theories | Emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions |
Articulation | Is a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
Substitutions | Occur when a person substitutes one sound for another, as when a child substitutes /d/ for the voiced /th/ ("doze" for "those"), /t/ for /k/ ("tat" for "cat"), or /w/ for /r/ ("wabbit" for "rabbit") |
Omissions | Occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word |
Additions | Occur when students place a vowel between two consonants |
Distortions | Are modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word |
Apraxia | Is a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
Pitch | Is affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx |
Duration | Is the length of time any speech sound requires |
Intensity | (Loudness or softness) is based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds |
Resonance | Is determined by the way in which the tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose |
Hypernasality | Is when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/ |
Hypnonasality | Occurs because air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead |
Fluency | Is the rate and rhythm of speaking |
Specific Language Impairment | Describes a language disorder with no identifiable cause in a person with apparently normal development in all other areas |
Organic Disorders | Are those caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
Functional Disorders | Are those with no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
Congenital Disorder | Is a disorder that occurs at or before birth |
Acquired Disorder | Is a disorder that occurs well after birth |
Oral Motor Exam | Is examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw |
Bilingual | Refers to someone who uses two languages equally well |
Bidialectal | Refers to someone who uses two variations of a language |
System for Augmenting Language (SAL) | Focuses on augmented input of language |