Psychology 2043A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Expressive Language Disorder, List Of Voice Disorders, Communication Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

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Communicaion disorders: impairment in ability to receive, send, process and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems. Idea deines speech or lamguage impairment as communicaion disorder such as stutering clutering, impaired ariculaion advers;ey afects childs educaional performance. Evident in process of hearing, language, or speech. To be eligible for sped services communicaion must have adverse afect on learning. Speech impaired when deviates far from others that it. Three types of speech impairments: ariculaion disorders errors in producion of speech sounds, fluency disorders diiculies in low/ rhythm of speech, voic disorders problems with quality or use of ones voice. Important to keep speakers age, educaion, cultural background in determining if speech impairment. Many children have mild moderate speech impairments and usually diappear as child matures. Impaired comprehension and use of spoken writen and/ or other symbol system disorder may involve. Recepive language disorder diiculty naming days of week in order / following sequenced commands.