Special Education Quiz 6
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- Aphasia
- Any language impairment, receptive or expressive, that is caused by brain damage
- Articulation
- Speech disorder involving the abnormal production of sounds, including additions, omissions, substitutions and distortions
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Strategies for compensating for an individuals communication limitations or disabilities
- Central Auditory Precessing Disorder
- Conditions in which the brain of a person who has normal hearing does not effectively interpret the auditory information that comes from the ears
- Communication Disorder
- Term sometimes used synonymously with speech and language disorders, but also likely to be used in describing individuals who have hearing loss
- Apraxia
- Disorder in which individuals have extraordinary difficulty in producing speech that other people manage easily. Words may be unintelligable.
- Expressive Language
- A persons ability to produce language
- Fluency Disorder
- Speech disorder in which hesitations during speech interfere with communication
- Language Delay
- Condition in which children acquire language at a slower rate. Can be mild, moderate or severe
- Language Disorders
- Impairments that interfere with language comprehension and use
- Morphame
- Smallest unit of language that has meaning, composed of phenomes and either free (dad, clock) or bound (ing, ly)
- Morphology
- Ability to form words using one or more morphemes and using the rules of language
- Phoneme
- Set of sounds on which a language is based
- Phonemic Awareness
- Ability to distinguish among the subtly different sounds that make a language
- Phonological Awareness
- Ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of a language
- Phonology
- The ability to hear the sounds used in a language and use them correctly in a word
- Pragmatics
- The function or use of language within a social context
- Speech or language disorders
- All speech and language disorders
- Speech Disorders
- Problem with articulation, voice or fluency
- Semantics
- The content or meaning of ones language
- Syntax
- The ability to recognize and follow language rules