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Communication Disorders highlighted vocabulary

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Speech Disorder   Disorders of voice quality, fluency of speech, and difficulties producing sounds.  
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Language Disorder   Includes difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information.  
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Receptive Language Disorder   Difficulties in receiving or understanding information.  
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Expressive Language Disorder   Difficulties formulating ideas and information  
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Cleft Palate/lip   A condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity/upper lip  
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Dialect   Language variation that a group of people uses. Reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors.  
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Speech   Oral expression of language  
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Language   Structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communication.  
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Phonology   Use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words  
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Phonemes   Individual speech sounds  
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Morphology   System that governs the structure of words  
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Morpheme   smallest meaningful unit of speech  
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Syntax   Rules for putting words together to form sentences  
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Semantics   Meaning of what is expressed  
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Pragmatics   Use of communication in contexts  
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Social Interaction Theories   State that communication skills are learned through social interactions  
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Articulation   Speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds  
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Omissions   Leaving a phoneme out of a word  
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Additions   When an extra vowel is placed between two consonants (tree, tehree)  
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Distortions   Modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word  
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Pitch   Affected by tension and size of vocal folds, health of larynx, and location of larynx  
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Duration   Length of time any speech sound requires  
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Intensity   Determined by air pressure coming from lungs through vocal folds  
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Resonance   Perceived quality of someone's voice  
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Hypernasality   Air passes through the nasal cavity on words other than m, n, and ng  
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Hyponasality   Air can't pass through nasal cavity and comes out mouth instead  
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Specific language impairment   type of language disability  
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Organic disorders   Ones caused by identifiable problem in neuromuscular mechanism of the person  
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Functional disorders   No identifiable organic or neurological cause  
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Congenital disorder   occurs at or before birth  
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Acquired disorder   happens after birth  
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Oral motor exam   examination of appearance, strength and range of motion of lips, tongue, palate, teeth and jaw  
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Bilingual   uses 2 languages equally well  
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Bidialectal   uses 2 variations of a language, or whose primary language is difficult to determine  
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System for Augmenting Language (SAL)   instructional strategy that focuses on augmented input of language.  
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