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Auditory Disability
Definitions for auditory disabilities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Disorder | difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering |
| Language Disorder | difficulty in receiving, understanding, and forming ideas and information |
| Receptive Language Disorder | is characterized by difficulty in receiving or understanding information |
| Expressive Language Disorder | characterized by difficulty in forming ideas and information |
| Cleft Palate or Lip | describes a condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or the upper lip |
| Dialect | regional variation of a language |
| Speech | oral expression of language |
| Language | structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communication |
| Phonology | use of sound to make meaning syllables and words |
| Morphology | system that governs the structure of words |
| Morpheme | smallest meaningful unit of speech |
| Syntax | rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
| Semantics | the meaning of what is expressed |
| Pragmatics | use of communication in context |
| Social Interaction Theories | emphasizes that language skills are learned through social interactions |
| Articulation | a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
| Substitution | occur when a person substitutes one sound for another (doze instead of those) |
| Omissions | occur when a child leaves phoneme out of a word |
| Additions | occur when a student places a vowel between two consonants |
| Distortions | modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word |
| Apraxia | a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| Pitch | affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx |
| Duration | length of time any speech sound requires |
| Intensity | determined by the air pressure leaving the lungs during spoken language (loudness) |
| 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 |
| Hypernasality | when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds it should not |
| Hyponasality | when air cannot pass through the nasal cavity when it is necessary and instead passes through the mouth |
| Fluency | 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 no identifiable organic or neurological origin |
| Congenital Disorders | a disorder that occurs at or before birth |
| Acquired Disorders | disorder that occurs well after birth |
| Bilingual | refers to someone who uses two languages equally well |
| Bidialectal | refers to someone who uses to variations of language |
| System for Augmenting Language | (SAL) focuses on augmented input of language |
| Nasal Cavity | where air passes to make nasal phonemes |
| Hard Palate | needed to create certain phonemes |
| Soft Palate | closes off nasal cavity so air cannot escape through nose |
| Tongue | needed to shape oral cavity to make different sounds |
| Larynx | contains vocal cords |
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