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Understanding students with Communication disorders

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speech disorder   difficulty producing sounds, disorders of voice quality, or fluency of speech (stuttering)  
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language disorder   a difficulty in receiving, understanding, and forming ideas and information  
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receptive language disorder   having a difficulty in receiving or understanding information  
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expressive language disorder   difficulty in forming ideas and information  
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cleft palate or lip   a medical condition where a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or upper lip  
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dialect   regional variation of a language  
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speech   oral expression of language  
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language   a symbolic system for communicating- it is structured, shared, and rule governed  
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phonology   the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words  
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phonemes   individual sounds of speech and the way in which they are produced based on their placement in a word or syllable  
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morphology   the system that governs the structure of words  
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morpheme   the smallest meaningful unit of speech  
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syntax   the rules for stringing words together to form sentences.  
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semantics   the meaning of an expression  
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pragmatics   the use of communication within context  
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social interaction theories   emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions  
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articulation   a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds  
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substitutions   when a speaker substitutes one sound for another  
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omissions   occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word  
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additions   occur when students pace a vowel between two consonants  
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distortion   modifications to the production of a phoneme in a word  
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apraxia   a motor speech disorder- disrupts the way in which a person plans to produce speech  
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pitch   altered by the tension and size of the vocal folds, health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx  
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duration   the length of time that a speech sound requires  
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resonance   determined by the way in which the tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose  
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intensity   loudness or softness- based on the perception of the listener; determined by the air pressure coming through the vocal folds from the lungs  
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hypernasality   when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than the three it is supposed to- /m/, /n/, /ng/  
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hyponasality   when air cannot pass through the nose and therefore it comes out of the mouth  
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fluency   the rate and rhythm of speaking  
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specific language impairment   a language disorder that has no identifiable cause- a person with apparently normal development in all other areas  
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organic disorders   disorders that are caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person  
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functional disorders   disorders with no identifiable organic or neurological cause  
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congenital disorders   occurs at or before birth  
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acquired disorder   occurs well after birth  
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oral motor exam   examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw  
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bilingual   refers to someone who uses two languages equally  
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bidialectal   refers to someone who uses two variations of a language  
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System for Augmenting Language (SAL)   focuses on augmented input of language  
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