LING 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Communication Disorder, Vocal Tract, Speech Disorder
18 Feb 2017
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Interactive people to talk with each other or do things together. Facial expression, tone of voice, body language. Group or subgroups in society vary from each other (e. g. : turn-taking, length of pause between sentences) Age, socioeconomic status, geographical background, ethnicity, gender . Perceptual systems process of recognizing and interpretation sensory stimuli. Vocal tract where sounds is produced mouth, throat, larynx. Words, syntax (grammar), phonology & phonetics (speech sound & their structure) Developmental in children and sometimes in adulthood. Acquired due to problems in adulthood and sometimes in childhood. Congenital disorders (condition existing at or before birth regardless of cause) Not uncommon to have more than one impairment in communication. Intertwined with an interaction among the processes of speech, language and hearing. Disorders of speech, orofacial myofunctional patterns disorders of the muscles and functions of the face and mouth, language, swallowing, cognitive communication, hearing and balance. Un impairment/disabilities affect quality of life.
