CSD-2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dyslexia, Eustachian Tube, Pediatrics

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-2259
• Professor: Joe Klein

Document Summary

Articulation disorder : emphasizes the impact of the disorder on an individual"s ability to articulate certain speech sounds effectively. Speech-sound disorder : increasing in popularity given that it does not explicitly imply that an individual"s disordered speech is attributable to an impairment of phonology or articulation. Prevalence: an epidemiological term used to describe the number of cases of a condition among the population: percentage of persons who exhibit a disorder at a particular point in time. Lifetime prevalence: percentage of persons who experience the disorder sometime within their lives. Point prevalence/ period prevalence: percentage of persons affected during a short interval (1 day to 1 month) or over a year (1 month-12 months) Etiology of articulation and phonology disorders: below normal intelligence, more in lower socioeconomic status, language development, auditory discrimination, ankyloglossia: tongue tied. Lingual frenum: cleft palate, hearing loss, motor speech disorder. Dysarthria: nerve damage resulting in difficulties making the speech movements.