PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Speech Disorder, Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Awareness
6 Apr 2016
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Paper due nov 10th (if you haven"t already done the first option) Pattern of strengths and weaknesses is extreme related to their intelligence. Main signs is not performing up to average level in school. Phonemes are basic speech elements (ba, da, etc) By age 1 can say a few words to express themselves. Easier to learn language before 1 because the neural connections haven"t been set yet. 4 types phonological disorder, stuttering, expressive language disorder, mixed expressive-receptive language disorder (combined understand and expression difficulties) How are they diagnosed: low scores in certain areas. Large variety of tests that have subtests that measure different areas of intelligence. Children with learning disorders have iq score at least in normal range. Standard rule of thumb is that the achievement has to be at least 2 standard deviations below the average iq level. Problems might be: cultural insensitivity, debate about whether or not to use a more dimensional model.
