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Ch. 6- vocab
Communication Disorders highlighted vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Speech Disorder | Disorders of voice quality, fluency of speech, and difficulties producing sounds. |
Language Disorder | Includes difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information. |
Receptive Language Disorder | Difficulties in receiving or understanding information. |
Expressive Language Disorder | Difficulties formulating ideas and information |
Cleft Palate/lip | A condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity/upper lip |
Dialect | Language variation that a group of people uses. Reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors. |
Speech | Oral expression of language |
Language | Structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communication. |
Phonology | Use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
Phonemes | Individual speech sounds |
Morphology | System that governs the structure of words |
Morpheme | smallest meaningful unit of speech |
Syntax | Rules for putting words together to form sentences |
Semantics | Meaning of what is expressed |
Pragmatics | Use of communication in contexts |
Social Interaction Theories | State that communication skills are learned through social interactions |
Articulation | Speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
Omissions | Leaving a phoneme out of a word |
Additions | When an extra vowel is placed between two consonants (tree, tehree) |
Distortions | Modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word |
Pitch | Affected by tension and size of vocal folds, health of larynx, and location of larynx |
Duration | Length of time any speech sound requires |
Intensity | Determined by air pressure coming from lungs through vocal folds |
Resonance | Perceived quality of someone's voice |
Hypernasality | Air passes through the nasal cavity on words other than m, n, and ng |
Hyponasality | Air can't pass through nasal cavity and comes out mouth instead |
Specific language impairment | type of language disability |
Organic disorders | Ones caused by identifiable problem in neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
Functional disorders | No identifiable organic or neurological cause |
Congenital disorder | occurs at or before birth |
Acquired disorder | happens after birth |
Oral motor exam | examination of appearance, strength and range of motion of lips, tongue, palate, teeth and jaw |
Bilingual | uses 2 languages equally well |
Bidialectal | uses 2 variations of a language, or whose primary language is difficult to determine |
System for Augmenting Language (SAL) | instructional strategy that focuses on augmented input of language. |