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Chapter 6
Understanding Sudents with Communication Disorders
Question | Answer |
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speech disorder | difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech |
language disorder | difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information |
receptive language disorder | difficulty receiving o understanding information |
expressive language disorder | difficulty formulating ideas and information |
cleft palate or lip | condition which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or the upper lip |
dialect | language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural factors |
speech | oral expression of language |
language | structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating |
phonology | use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words called phonemes |
morphology | system that governs the structure of words |
morpheme | syllable addition bill is one morpheme but bill's is two |
syntax | rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
semantics | meaning of what is expressed |
pragmatics | use of communication in contexts |
social interaction theories | communication skills are learned through social interactions |
articulation | speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
substitutions | child substitutes /d/ for the voiced /th/ common in young kids |
omission | child leaves a phoneme out of a word |
additions | students place a vowel between two consonants, converting tree into tahree |
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 | affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx |
duration | 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 | quality of someone's voice, 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 | air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than m , n, and ng |
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 |
phonology characteristics | may be unable to discriminate differences in speech sounds or sound segments that signify differences in words |
morphology characteristics | difficulties using the structure of words to get or give information |
syntax characteristics | involving word order |
semantic characteristics | difficulty using words singly or together in sentences |
pragmatic characteristics | social use of language, problems with communication between speaker and listener |
organic disorder | caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
functional disorder | no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
congential disorder | disorder that occurs before birth |
acquired disorder | disorder that occurs after birth |
bilingual | uses two languages equally well |
bidialectal | uses two variations of a language |
system for augmenting language (SAL) | focuses on augmented input of language |