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Ch. 6 SPED Vocab
Formative Assessment 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Disorder | Difficulty producing sounds, disorders of voice quality or fluency in speech, (eg stuttering) |
| Language Disorder | Difficulty receiving, understanding or formulating ideas and information. |
| Receptive language disorder | Difficulty receiving/understanding information |
| Expressive language disorder | Difficulty formulating ideas and information |
| Cleft lip or palate | A condition where person's upper lip/upper part of the oral cavity has a split |
| Dialect | language variation that reflects shared regional, social or cultural/ethnic factors |
| Speech | oral expression of language |
| Language | structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communication |
| Phonology | the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
| Phonemes | rules and sequencing of individual speech sounds within phonology |
| Morphology | system that governs the structure of words |
| morpheme | the smallest meaningful unit of speech (eg, adding an -s to the end of some words makes it plural) |
| syntax | rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
| Semantics | the meaning of what is expressed |
| Pragmatics | the use of communication in contexts (overall organizer for language) |
| Social interaction theories | theories that emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interaction |
| Articulation; Articulation disorders | the speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds; the most common form of speech disorder, when a person cannot correctly produce various sounds and sound combinations |
| Substitutions | withing articulation disorders, trading one consonant for another (eg /w/ for /r/, "wabbit" for "rabbit", Elmer Fudd) |
| Omissions | when a phoneme is left out of the beginning, middle, or end of a word (eg "boo" for "blue") |
| Additions | when extra vowels are added between consonants (eg "tah-ree" for "tree") |
| Distortions | modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word (eg lisps) |
| Apraxia | a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which people plans to produce speech |
| pitch | rate of vibration in the vocal folds, affect by the tension/size of vocal folds, health and location of larynx |
| Duration | length of time any speech sound requires |
| Intensity | (loudness or softness) based on perception or listener, determined by air pressure coming from lungs through vocal folds |
| Resonance | the perceived quality of someone's voice, determined by the way tone comes from the vocal folds is modified by sinus cavities |
| hypernasality | air is allowed to pass through nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/ and /ng/. |
| hyponasality | are cannot pass through the nose, comes through the mouth instead (sounds like a cold) |
| fluency | rate and rhythm of speaking |
| Specific language impairment | language disability that is not related to any physical or intellectual disability |
| Organic disorders | disorders caused by an identifiable problem in neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
| Functional disorders | disorders with no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
| Congenital disorder | disorder that occurs at or before birth |
| Acquired disorder | disorder that 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 | use of two languages equally well |
| bidialectal | uses two variations of a language |
| System for Augmenting | focuses on augmented input of language by activating the student's communication divide in naturally occurring communication interactions at home/school, in community, encouraging (not requiring) use of the device |