Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speech-Language Pathology, Communication Disorder, Hearing Loss
12 Dec 2017
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Wernicke"s area: 1871 german neurologist discovered part of the brain the understood language, posterior position of the left temporal lobe, lesions at this location could speak but their speech was incoherent and made no sense. Communication: the exchange of thoughts, info, feelings, and ideas, requires, sender, message, receiver, non verbal comm is very powerful 93% of communication is nonverbal. Her is going : syntax: rules that guide how words are combined to form sentences and the relationships of components within the sentence. Syntax: how words are arranged in a sentence, english: subject, verb, object (he eats cookie, dutch: subject, object, verb (he is a cookie eater, english: adjective, object (white dog, french: object, adjective (chien blanc) Stuttering: characterized by repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables or words, tension, and extraneous movement, early intervention is very effective with stuttering speech therapy for pre-schoolers is. 95% effective, drops to 60% at age 6.
