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SPED Ch 6 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| speech disorder | refers to difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality of fluency of speech (154) |
| language disorder | entails difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information (154) |
| receptive language disorder | characterized by difficulty receiving or understanding information (154) |
| expressive language disorder | characterized by difficulty formulation ideas and information (155) |
| cleft palate/lip | a condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or upper lip (155) |
| dialect | language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors (155) |
| speech | oral expression of language (156) |
| language | structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating (157) |
| phonology | use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words (157) |
| phonemes | individual speech sounds (157) |
| morphology | the system that governs the structure of words (157) |
| morpheme | smallest meaningful unit of speech (157) |
| syntax | provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences (157) |
| semantics | meaning of what is expressed (157) |
| pragmatics | use of communication in contexts (157) |
| social interaction theories | emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions (158) |
| articulation | speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds (159) |
| substitutions | when a child substitutes one phoneme for another (159) |
| omissions | when a child leaves a phoneme out of and word (159) |
| additions | when students place a vowel between two consonants (159) |
| distortions | modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word (159) |
| apraxia | motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| pitch | affected by the tensions and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx (160) |
| duration | length of time any speech sound requires (160) |
| intensity | based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds (160) |
| resonance | perceived quality of someone's voice, determined by the way the tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose (160) |
| hypernasality | when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavities on sounds other than /n/, /m/, /ng/ (160) |
| hyponasality | occurs because air cannot come out of the mouth so it comes out of the mouth instead (160) |
| fluency | rate and rhythm of speaking (161) |
| specific language impairment | a language disorder that has no apparent cause and is not related to any physical or intellectual disability (161) |
| organic disorders | disorder caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person (162) |
| functional disorders | disorders with no identifiable organic or neurological cause (162) |
| congenital disorder | a disorder that occurs at or before birth (162) |
| acquired disorder | a disorder that occurs well after birth (162) |
| bilingual | someone who uses two languages equally well (164) |
| bidialectal | someone who uses two variations of a language (164) |
| System of Augmenting Language (SAL) | focuses on augmented input of language (172 |