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SPED326 Assignment6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| speech disorder | refers to difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorders o voice quality 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 formulation 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 | Is a regional variation of a language, as when someone speaks English using terms or pronunciations common inly in that regions. |
| 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 structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communication. |
| 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 | Emphasizes that communication skills are learned through social interactions. |
| Articulation | Is speakers production of individual or sequenced sounds. |
| 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. |
| Substitutions | Occur when a person substitutes one sounds for another, as when a child subs /d/ for the voiced /th/ ("doze" for "those") |
| Omissions | occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word. |
| Additions | Occurs when students place a vowel between 2 consonants. |
| Distortions | Are modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word. |
| Pitch | Is affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx. |
| Hypernasality | Is when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Duration | Is the length of time any speech sound requires. |
| 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. |
| Hyponasality | Occurs because air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead. |