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Ch. 6: Communication
Understanding students with Communication disorders
Question | Answer |
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speech disorder | difficulty producing sounds, disorders of voice quality, or fluency of speech (stuttering) |
language disorder | a difficulty in receiving, understanding, and forming ideas and information |
receptive language disorder | having a difficulty in receiving or understanding information |
expressive language disorder | difficulty in forming ideas and information |
cleft palate or lip | a medical condition where a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or upper lip |
dialect | regional variation of a language |
speech | oral expression of language |
language | a symbolic system for communicating- it is structured, shared, and rule governed |
phonology | the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
phonemes | individual sounds of speech and the way in which they are produced based on their placement in a word or syllable |
morphology | the system that governs the structure of words |
morpheme | the smallest meaningful unit of speech |
syntax | the rules for stringing words together to form sentences. |
semantics | the meaning of an expression |
pragmatics | the use of communication within context |
social interaction theories | emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions |
articulation | a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
substitutions | when a speaker substitutes one sound for another |
omissions | occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word |
additions | occur when students pace a vowel between two consonants |
distortion | modifications to the production of a phoneme in a word |
apraxia | a motor speech disorder- disrupts the way in which a person plans to produce speech |
pitch | altered by the tension and size of the vocal folds, health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx |
duration | the length of time that a speech sound requires |
resonance | determined by the way in which the tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose |
intensity | loudness or softness- based on the perception of the listener; determined by the air pressure coming through the vocal folds from the lungs |
hypernasality | when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than the three it is supposed to- /m/, /n/, /ng/ |
hyponasality | when air cannot pass through the nose and therefore it comes out of the mouth |
fluency | the rate and rhythm of speaking |
specific language impairment | a language disorder that has no identifiable cause- a person with apparently normal development in all other areas |
organic disorders | disorders that are caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
functional disorders | disorders with no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
congenital disorders | occurs at or before birth |
acquired disorder | occurs well after birth |
oral motor exam | 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 |
bidialectal | refers to someone who uses two variations of a language |
System for Augmenting Language (SAL) | focuses on augmented input of language |