COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

GenivyveMichelle Brody

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR “COMMUNICATION DISORDER?”

What do you think of as a common “communication disorder?”

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WHO ARE KYLIE AND JOEY?

Steps to understanding

1. Get help

2. Provide intensive intervention

3. Assemble a Team

4. Expect Great Results and celebrate them

5. Face the Challenges

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS?

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS Speech disorder: The difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech

Language disorder: entails difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information

Expressive language disorder: characterized by difficulty formulating ideas and information

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SPEECH DISORDERS

Substitution Example: “doz” for “those” or “wabbit” for “rabbit”

Omission Example: “boo” for “blue” or “ap” for “apple”

Addition Example: “tree” becomes “”tahree”

Distortion Example: lisphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvTLfV8fls

Do you think students who are culturally divers participate more or less in the classroom?

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN COMMUNICATION Bilingual students

Dialectical difference

Accents

Dialect- a language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social or cultural/ethnic factors.

INCIDENCE

-About 19% of all students ages six through twenty- one in special education are classified as having a speech- language disability. This calculation does not include children who have communication disorder secondary to other conditions.

-Most of the students with communication disorders spend the majority of their day in the general education class room

APRAXIA OF SPEECHDefinition: a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech

VOICE DISORDERS

Pitch

Duration

Intensity

Resonance

FLUENCY DISORDERS Example: Stuttering

TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT INFO.

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS

Phonological disorders Students have a hard time distinguishing differences in sound segments. Example: Pen and pin may sound the same.

Morphological difficulties Students have trouble using the structure of words to get or give information.Example: May leave off –ed in walked, so the word is not past tense to them or others.

Syntactical errorsInvolve word order. “Him sick.” OR “Where one them park at?”

LANG. IMPAIR. CONT.

Semantic disorders Students have difficulty with multiple meaning words when related to time and space, cause and effect, and inclusion vs. exclusion.

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Pragmatic disorders Focuses on the social use of language. Children have a had time adapting to communication to varied situations, obtaining and maintaining eye contact, using appropriate body language, maintaining a topic, and taking turns in a conversation.

KEY TERMS Semantics Pragmatics Syntax Morphology Phonology

CAUSES Organic Functional Congenital Acquired

INSTRUCTING STUDENTS

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Early childhood

Elementary and middle school

Secondary and transition System for augmenting language (SAL) Aided language stimulation

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NEED TO KNOW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Question #1

Q: What’s the difference between a speech and language disorder?

A: Speech disorders refer to difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of the voice or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering. On the other hand, a language disorder entails difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information.

Question #2

Q: What are two forms of language?

A: Receptive (hard to receive information related to language) and expressive (hard to form ideas and information).

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