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SPED D.M.G
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| speech disorder | refers to difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality |
| Language Disorder | Entails difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information. |
| Receptive language disorder | Characterized by difficulty receiving or understanding information |
| Expressive language disorder | Difficulty formulating ideas and information |
| Cleft palate or lip | A condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or upper lip. |
| Dialect | Language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural factors |
| Speech | The oral expression of language |
| Language | Structured, shared, rule governed, symbolic system for communicating. |
| Phonology | Use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
| Morphology | System that governs the structure of words |
| 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 contexts. |
| Social Interaction Theories | Emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions. |
| Articulation | Is a speakers production of individual or sequenced sounds |
| Substitutions | It is common for young children to make sound substitutions that disappear with maturation |
| Omissions | Occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word |
| Additions | Occur when students place a vowel between two consonants |
| Distortions | Modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word |
| Apraxia | Motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| Pitch of Voice | Is affected by the tension and size of vocal folds, the healthy of the larynx, and the location of the larynx. |
| Duration | The length of time any speech sound requires |
| Intensity | Based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds |
| Resonance | the perceived quality of someones voice |
| Hypernasality | In which air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than (M, N, NG) |
| Hyponasality | Because air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead |
| Fluency | Fluent speech is smooth, flows well, and appears to be effortless. |
| Specific language impairment | not related to any physical or intellectual disability |
| Phonology | Students with phonological disorders may be unable to discriminate differences in speech sounds or sound segments that signify differences in words. |
| Morphology | Children experience difficulties using the structure of words to get or give information |
| Syntax | Syntactical errors are those involving word order |
| Semantics | Children who experience difficulty using words singly or together in sentences |
| Pragmatics | Social use of language |
| Organic disorders | Those caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
| Functional Disorders | Those with no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
| Congenital Disorder | A disorder that occurs at or before birth |
| Acquired disorder | A disorder that occurs well after birth |
| Articulation Assessment | Specifically, articulation assessments evaluate a students ability to produce speech sounds in single words, sentences, and conversation |
| Oral motor exam | Examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw |
| Voice Assessment | Include information about the onset and course of the voice problem, environmental factors that might affect vocal quality and typical voice use |
| Fluency Assessment | The speech language pathologist measures the amount of dysfluency as well as the type and duration of dysfluencies while the student is speaking |
| Bilingual | Uses two languages equally well |
| Bidialectal | Uses two variations of a language |
| System for Augmenting Language (SAL) | Focuses on augmented input of language |