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communication - ✔✔sending and receiving messages - message transmission and
response or feedback


speech - ✔✔oral expression of language (hearing and decoding; muscle and
physical movement)


language - ✔✔a system of abstract symbols and rule-governed structures, specific
conventions of which are learned
-socially shared rule, arbitrary code , rule-governed system.
-give letters meaning with sounds and grammar


hearing - ✔✔receiving and encoding acoustic information


Speech disorder - ✔✔difficulty with the production of a spoken language


hearing disorder - ✔✔difficulty: detecting speech sounds, discriminating speech
sounds, and understanding the meaning of spoken language


Language disorder - ✔✔difficulty obtaining a language system and or using the
symbols of language
-disability that prevents people from understanding language
-impairment in all compared to peer group

,language delay - ✔✔slow rate of acquired linguistic patterns and normal
developmental sequence


language difference - ✔✔variation of a symbol system used by a group of
individuals that reflects and is is determined by a shared regional, social, or
cultural factors


language disability - ✔✔"contextually mediated" person only disabled if the
environment fails to accommodate. Ex: They may not be disabled in a deaf
community, but are in any other environment.


Pathology - ✔✔the precise study and diagnosis of a disease


Etiology - ✔✔cause of disease


functional etiology - ✔✔no identified organic etiology- generally result of
learning, psychological, or environmental factors


organic etiology - ✔✔caused by demonstrable pathology of ORGAN SYSTEM


congenital etiology - ✔✔not necessarily genetic- no organic cause


acquired etiology - ✔✔caused by event during lifetime


what percentage of population has a communication disorder? - ✔✔17%

,incidence - ✔✔1/10 preschool children = problems producing speech
5/100 (5%) =language delays or disorders
10% elementary children = speech or language disorder
-single largest handicapping condition in early childhood


prevalence - ✔✔32 million in USA = hearing impairments
17% = some type of language disorder


phonology - ✔✔rules for the production of a sound unit
-rules that govern sound combination


morphology - ✔✔word grammar
difficulty with tenses and shapes of words


syntax - ✔✔sentence grammar


semantics - ✔✔vocabulary and intended word meaning


pragmatics - ✔✔purpose of wording, social use


vocal tract - ✔✔nasal, oral, pharyngeal, larynx, trachea, tongue, epiglottis, vocal
folds, mandible, maxilla, soft and hard palate

, nasal, pharyngeal, oral cavities - ✔✔mouth and nose to coal folds
transform sound into speech sounds


larynx - ✔✔between pharynx and trachea
prevents objects from entering the lungs


trachea - ✔✔cartilaginous/membranous tube that connects the larynx to the
lungs
-supplies 02 to the lungs


tongue - ✔✔most of oral cavity
phonetic articulation


vocal folds - ✔✔stretched horizontally across the larynx
vibrate during phonation


glottis - ✔✔space between the vocal folds
brings buzzing quality to sounds called voice or voice pronunciation


mandible - ✔✔lower jaw
chewing food and moving oral cavity for communication


maxilla - ✔✔upper jaw holds upper teeth

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