Language Components
These are the three components of language.
What are form, content, and use?
This is an exchange between senders and receivers.
What is communication?
This is diffuse brain damage as a result of external force.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
These disorders are present at birth.
What are congenital disorders?
This is a consistent vocal patterns that is the precursor to true words.
What is a phonetically consistent form or a protoword?
This can refer to saying that do not always mean what they seem to mean, as in idioms.
What is figurative language?
This refers to the rules of a language and is a part of the form component of language.
What is gesture or eye contact?
Deficits in this area of language are most likely to remain long after the injury in TBI.
What is Pragmatics?
These disorders are the result of illness, accident, or environmental circumstances later in life.
What are acquired disorders?
By this age, children produce about 50 words and begin to combine words predictably.
What is 18 months of age?
This is when most children understand approximately 60000 words.
What is by high school?
This is how words are arranged in a sentence and the ways in which one words may affect another.
What is syntax?
What is nonverbal?
This is the cause or origin of a problem, and may be used to classify a communication problem.
What is etiology?
The severity of an intellectual disability is ususally based on this measure.
What is IQ?
This is a child's personal dictionary that reflects his or her environment.
What is lexicon?
This is when multiple word meanings are acquired.
What is during adolescence?
This refers to the meaning that define a particular word and is a part of the content component of language.
What is semantics?
The increase in the ability to recount the past and remember short stories on the part of preschool-aged children is due to this.
What is increased memory?
A speech disorder caused by paralysis, weakness, or poor coordination of the speech musculature.
What is dysarthria?
This is an underlying neurological impairment in executive function that regulates behavior, causing impulsiveness.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
This is the ave when about 90% of adult syntax is acquired.
What is 5 years of age?
In this type of intervention, the SLP follows the client's lead and and teaches along the way.
This is how and why we use language and is a part of the use component of language and it can vary with culture.
What is pragmatics?
This skill is demonstrated by gestures or eye contact and typically appears around 8-9 months.
What is intentionality?
A speech disorder that is due to neuromotor programming difficulties.
Children with this disorder have low birth weight and later demonstrate hyperactivity, motor problems, attention deficits, and cognitive disabilities.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder?
This is inferring meaning from context and using the word in a similar manner.
What is fast mapping?
This is a rule-governed linguistic system.
Dialect
This is when the first meaningful word occurs.
These are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are manifested by significant difficulties in the development and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities.
What are learning disabilities?
Some individuals with this disorder may have immediate or delayed echolalia or use entire verbal routines, called formuli.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This is how language length is calculated.
What is Mean Length of Utterance?
This is a manner of pronunciation among cultural groups.
What is accent?
This allows the child to consider language in the abstract, make judgments about its correctness, and create verbal contexts.
What is metalinguistics?
This is how cultural identify, setting, and participants influence communication.
What is sociolinguistics?