PSY345H5 Chapter 10: Communication Disorders
Document Summary
Speech, language, and communication: communication is the exchange of ideas, opinions, or facts between senders and receivers. It requires that a sender (an individual or group) compose and transmit a message, and that a receiver decode and understand the message: the sender and the receiver are therefore partners in the communication process. It is one means of expressing language but not the only means: language represents the message contained in speech. Syntax: the rules governing sentence structure, the way sequences of words are combined into phrases and sentences: morphology: the form and internal structure of words. Semantics: the understanding of language, the component most directly concerned with meaning: pragmatics: a component of language that represents the rules that govern the reason(s) for communicating. Interventions for all communication disorders must consider multiple elements: the nature of the problem, the impact on the individual, and the availability and delivery of services.
