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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Communication | The process of sharing information |
| Communication functions | acts of communciation such as requesting, rejectig, commenting, arguing, and reasoning |
| Communication disorder | Impairment in the ability to use speech or language to communicate |
| Language | an arbitrary code or system of symbols to communciate meaning |
| Expressive Langugae | encoding or sending messages in communciation |
| Receptive Lnaguage | decoding or understanding messages in communciation |
| Speech | the formation and sequencing of oral language sounds during commincation |
| Augmentative and alternative commincation (AAC) | alternative forms of communication that do not use oral sounds of speech or that augment the use of speech |
| Speech disorder | oral communication that involves abnormal use of the vocal appartus, is unintelligible, or is so inferior that it draws attention to itself and cuses aniexty, feelings, orf inadequacy, or inappropriate behavior in the speaker |
| Language disorder | oral communcation that involves a lag in the ability to understand and express ideas, putting linguistic skill behind an individual;s development in other areas, such as motor, cogntive, or soical development |
| Phonology | refers to the rules governing speech sounds- the particular sounds and how they are sequenced |
| Morphology | refers to the rules that givern alterations of the internal organization of words, such as adding suffixs and other grammatical inflections to make proper plurals- verb tenses, for example |
| Syntax | refers to the rule of organizing sentences in a meaningful way, including, for example, guidelines about using subjects and predicates and placing modifiers correctly |
| Semantics | refers to the rules about attching meanings and concepts to words |
| Pragmatics | refers to the rules about using language for social purposes |
| Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) | speech-language pathologists work with indivudals who have disorders relalted to speech, language, communciation, swallowing, voice, or fluency. SLPs may work in the health care profession or in schools. SLPs assess, diagnose, and treat indivduals w speec |
| Recetive language | decoding or understanding messages in communication |
| Expressive language | encoding or sending messages in communication |
| Primary language disorder | a language diroder that has no known cause |
| Secondary language disorder | a language disorder that is cuased by another disorder or disabiltiy, such as intellectual disabiltiies, hearing impairment, or brian injury |
| Developmental language disorder (DLD) | a neurodevelpmental langugae disorder that has no identifiable cause; it is unexpected and unexplained by physcial and cogntive factors |
| Specific language impairment (SLI) | a langugae disorder with no identifiable cause |
| Early expressive language delay (EELD) | a signifcant lag in the development of expressive language that is apparent by age 2 |
| Language-based reading impairment | a reading problem that is based on language problem |
| Phonological awareness | the abiltiy to understand that speec flow can be broken into smaller sounds units such as words, syllables, and phonemics |
| Larynx | the struture in the throat containing the vocal apparatus; is a temporary loss of the voice cuased by inflammation of the larynx |
| Aphonia | Loss of voice |
| Resonance | the quality of the sound imparted by the size, shape, and texture of the organs in the vocal tract |
| Cleft palate | a condition in which there is a rift or split in the upper part of the oral cavity; may include the upper lip |
| Dysfluencies | hesitations, repetitions, and other disruptions of normal speech flow |
| Stuttering | speech charcaterized by abnormal hesitations, prolongations, and repetitions; may be accompanied by grimaces, gestures, or other bodily movements |
| Dysarthria | a condition in which brain damage causes impaired control of the muscle used in articulation |
| Apraxia | The inability to plan and coordinate speech |
| Developmental apraxia | a disorder of speech or language involving problems in motor planning such that the child has difficulty in producing speech sounds and organizing words and word sounds for effective communication. The cuase may be unknown |
| Acquired apraxia | As in developmental apraxia, there are problems in motor planning such that the child has difficulty in producing speech sounds and organizing words and word sounds for effctive communication |
| Decoding | the ability to convert print to spoken language dependent on phonemic awareness and understadning of the alphabetic principles |
| Dynamic Assessments | an interactive assessment process that involves ongoing analysis of student learning in respose to an intervention |
| Curriculum-based language and communication assessment (CBLA) | curriculum-based assessments that focuses on speech, language, and communciation skills needed to learn the school curriculum |
| Prellinguistic communciation | communication through gestures and noises before the child has learned oral langugae |
| Milieu teaching | a naturalistic approach to language intervention in which the goal is to teach functional language skills in a natural enviorment |