Communication Disorders Speech

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Communication DisordersSpeech Language
Disorders

• Definitions, Characteristics, Prevalence,
  Strategies

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Communication Disorders

• Definition
• Difficulties in normal speech, language or
  hearing processes
• Not the result of hearing loss
• IDEA stuttering, articulation, language or
  voice impairment that adversely affects a childs
  educational performance

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Communication Disorders

• Disorders
• Phonology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Morphology

• Errors
• Speech patterns
• Word order
• Word meanings
• Communication
• Tenses

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Communication Disorders

• Normal
• Producing the sound
• Voicing the speech
• Fluency or flow

• Impaired
• Articulation disorders
• Voice disorders
• Stuttering

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Communication Disorders
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Communication DisordersPrevalence

• 5 of all children
• 21 of all students receiving special education
• 89 are in general education classroom

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Communication DisordersStrategies

• Start with childs interest
• Limit questions
• Motivating voice tone
• Allow for processing time
• Provide numerous opportunities
• Be accepting

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Hearing Loss

• Definitions, Characteristics, Prevalence,
  Strategies, and Controversies

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Hearing LossDefinitions

• IDEA loss severe enough to adversely affect
  educational performance
• Medical loss of hearing from slight to profound
• Cultural shared cultural identity of
  individuals who are deaf

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Hearing LossCharacteristics

• Language and communication
• Oral/aural
• ASL
• Simultaneous communication
• Psychosocial dimensions
• Education

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Hearing LossServices Goals

• Extent of services
• Factors
• Communication
• Achievement
• Socialization
• Motivation
• Parent expectations

• Curricular goals
• Understanding of deaf culture
• Address language, reading and writing
• Improve speech sounds
• Using residual hearing

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Hearing LossControversies

• ASL or Oral?
• Best or adequate services?
• Deaf culture exclusively or hearing world?
• Parent/sibling training
• Related services in schools
• Cochlear implants/hearing aides

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Hearing Loss

• Deafness as pathological or cultural
• http//www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm
• Online course in ASL (100 signs)
• http//www.lifeprint.com/
• More ASL sites and information
• http//www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/amsla
  n.htm
• Free video on oral deaf education
• http//www.oraldeafed.org