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Understanding communication disorders and the characteristics surrounding them

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Speech Disorder   Difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorder of voice quality or fluency of speech (p501)  
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Language Disorder   Difficulty in receiving, understanding, and formulating ideas and information (p497)  
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Receptive Language Disorder   Characterized by difficulty in receiving or understanding information (p499)  
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Expressive Language Disorder   Characterized by difficulty in formulating ideas and information (p496)  
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Cleft Palate or Lip   A condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or the upper lip (p494)  
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Dialect   A regional variation of a language, as when someone speaks English using term or pronunciations common only in that region (p495)  
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Speech   Oral expression of language  
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Language   Structures, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating (p497)  
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Phonology   the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words (p499)  
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Phonemes   Individual speech sounds and how they are produced, depending on their placement in a syllable or word (p499)  
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Morphology   The system that governs the structure of words (p498)  
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Morphemes   The smallest meaningful unit of speech (498)  
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Syntax   Provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences (p501)  
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Semantics   The meaningful of what is expressed (p500)  
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Pragmatics   The use of communication in context (p499)  
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Social Interaction Theories   Emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions (p500)  
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Articulation   A speaker's production of individual or sequences sounds (p493)  
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Substitutions   Occur when a person substitutes one sound for another, as when a child substitutes /d/ for the voiced /th/ i.e. "doze" for "those" (p501)  
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Omissions   Occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word (p498)  
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Additions   Occur when students place a vowel between two constants (p493)  
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Distortions   Modifications of the productions of a phoneme in a word (p495)  
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Apraxia   A motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech (p493)  
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Pitch   Affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx (p499)  
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Duration   The length of time any speech sound requires  
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Intensity   Loudness or softness based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds (p497)  
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Resonance   Determined by the way in which he tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose (p500)  
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Hypernasality   When air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/ (p497)  
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Hyponasality   Occurs because air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead (p497)  
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Fluency   The rate and rhythm of speaking (p496)  
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Specific Language Impairment   Describes a language disorder with no identifiable cause in a person with apparently normal development in all other areas (p500)  
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Organic Disorder   Disorders caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person (p498)  
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Functional Disorder   Disorders with no identifiable organic or neurological cause (p496)  
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Congential Disorder   Disorder that occurs at or before birth (p495)  
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Acquired Disorder   Disorder that occurs well after birth (p493)  
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Oral Motor Exam   The examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw (p498)  
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Bilingual   Someone who uses two languages equally well (p494)  
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Bidialectal   Someone who uses two variations of a language (p494)  
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System for Augmenting Language (SAL)   Focuses on augmented input of language (p501)  
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