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A condition that affects an individual's ability to receive, send, process or understand verbal, nonverbal, or written communication
What is a communication disorder?
A speech disorder caused by muscle weakness of difficulty in coordinating the muscles used for speech
What is Dysarthia?
The use of visual modes of communication, specifically reading and writing
What is Literacy?
The most common and evidence-based intervention for addressing language disorders, the goal is to help individuals improve their receptive and expressive language, social communications skills, and other language-related functions
What is speech-language therapy?
A language disorder that affects a person's ability to produce speech, while comprehension often remains intact
What is Broca's aphasia?
A branch of biology that is concerned with the functions of organisms and bodily structures
What is physiology?
A condition where individuals struggle to express themselves verbally or in writing, despite having normal understanding of language
What is expressive language disorder?
The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words, and allows readers to "break down" words into their component sounds and blend them together
What is decoding?
The goal is to enhance understanding, inference-making, and critical thinking
What is reading comprehension intervention?
A language disorder that affects a person's ability to understand and interpret spoken or written language, while speech may appear fluent the content often lacks meaning
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
The ability to recognize, understand, and use morphemes - the smallest units of meaning in a language
What is morphological awareness?
Problems with the patterns of speech sounds, affecting how sounds are organized and used in words
What is phonological disorders?
The ability to understand, intrept, and analyze written text - it involves making meaning from what is read
What is reading comprehension?
Focusing on improving language skills, including vocabulary, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, and comprehension
What is Language-Based approach?
The most severe form aphasia with a profound impairment in all language abilities including speaking, understanding, reading, and writing
What is Global Aphasia?
A learned behavior, developed through negative experiences and environmental factors
What is the behavioral theory of stuttering?
The inability to recognize objects, people, sounds, smells, despite having normal sensory perception, and it's not due to memory loss
What is agnosia?
The ability to break words down into their individual sounds (e.g., "dog" - /d/ /o/ /g/)
What is segmenting?
Involves explicit and direct attempts to modify the child's speech and speech-related behaviors
What is direct treatment approaches?
The difficulty repeating words or phrases, despite having relatively intact fluency and comprehension
What is Conduction Aphasia?
An assessment of the sounds a child or individual can produce, including both consonants and vowels, in different positions of words
What is speech sound inventory?
A motor speech disorder that impairs a person's ability to plan and coordinate the movements required for speech, this comes from difficulty in the brain to send correct signals to the muscles involved in speaking
What is apraxia of speech?
The early stages of literacy development, where young children begin to understand and engage with language
What is emerging literacy?
The systematic phonic-based instruction using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methods
What is Orton-Gillingham Approach?
A rare and severe type of aphasia where the language areas of the brain, the person struggles with both language production and comprehension but they retain the ability to repeat what they hear
What is isolation aphasia?