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Com. Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Disorder | Refers to difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering. |
| Language Disorder | A 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 in formulating ideas and information. |
| Cleft Palate or Lip | Describes a condition is 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 pronunciation common only in that region. |
| Speech | Is the oral expression of language. |
| Language | Is a structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating. |
| 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 | Emphazize that communication are learned through social interactions. |
| Articulation | Is a speakers production of individual or sequenced sounds. |
| Substitutions | Occur when a person substitutes one sound for another. |
| Omissions | Occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word. |
| Additions | Occur when students place a vowel between two consonants. |
| Distortions | Are modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word. |
| Apraxia | Is a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| Pitch | Is affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location larynx. |
| Duration | Is the length of time any speech sound requires. |
| Intensity | Is based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds. |
| 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. |
| Hypernasality | Is when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/. |
| Hyponasality | Occurs because air can not pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead. |
| Fluency | Is the rate and rhythm of speaking. |
| Specific Language Impairments | 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. |
| Oral Motor Exam | Is examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, pallet, teeth, and jaw. |
| Bilingual | Refers to someone who uses two languages equally well. |
| Bi dialectical | Refers to someone who uses two variations of a language. |
| System for Augmenting Language | Focuses on augmented input of language. |
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