PSYCH 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elementary Arithmetic, Language Disorder, Dsm-5

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3B03
• Professor: Vivian Lee

Document Summary

Impairments in language expression and reception i. e. language delays. Reading disabilities: deficits in the ability to discern the meaning from words in text. Written expression disabilities: deficits in the ability to transcribe and generate text. Mathematics disabilities: deficits in numerical understanding, learning, representations and retrieval of basic arithmetic facts. Reception the comprehension of language used by others. Remember language development is shaped by the environment! Usually associated with a specific language impairment and language disorders: graphemes, written part of a language, phonemes, syntax, grammar, semantics, pragmatics. One basic distinction is whether the child has deficits in expression and/or receptive language: Speech sound disorder: child fails to display developmentally appropriate and dialect appropriate speech sounds, difficulty articulating speech sounds, fail to display age appropriate speech sounds, course of speech sound delayed. Overall, rates of language impairment range from 3-7% of children in the general population. Boys are reported as having higher rates than girls.