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SPED 326-eb
understanding students with communication disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Disorder | Difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering |
| Language Disorder | Difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information |
| Receptive Language Disorder | Difficulty receiving or understanding information |
| Expressive Language Disorder | Difficulty formulating ideas and information |
| Cleft Palate or Lip | Condition in which a person has a split in the upper oral cavity or upper lip |
| Dialect | A language variation that a group of individuals use and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors |
| Speech | The oral expression of language |
| Language | A structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating |
| Phonology | Use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
| morphology | the system that governs the structure of words |
| syntax | provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
| semantics | the meaning of what is expressed |
| pragmatics | the use of communication in context |
| social interaction theories | emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions |
| articulation | a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
| substitutions | occurs when a person substitutes one sound for another |
| omissions | occur when a person leaves a phenome out of a word |
| addition | occur when persons place a vowel between two consonants |
| distortions | modifications of the production of a phenome in a word |
| apraxia | a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| pitch | affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds and the health of the larynx |
| duration | the length of time any speech sound requires |
| intensity | loudness or softness |
| resonance | the perceived quality of someones voice |
| hypernasality | air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds |
| hyponasality | air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead |
| fluency | rate and rhythm of speaking |
| specific language impairment | not related to any physical or intellectual disability |
| 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 disorders | a disorder that occurs well after birth |
| oral motor exam | the examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw |
| bilingual | uses two languages equally well |
| bidialectal | uses two variations of a language |
| system for augmenting language (SAL) | focuses on augmented input of language |