Chapter 1: Essentials of Communication Flashcards
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What is communication?
Any means through which individuals relate wants, needs, thoughts, feelings, and knowledge to others.
What is a communication disorder?
An impairment in the ability to receive, send, and comprehend messages verbally, nonverbally, and graphically.
What does an SLP do?
Trained in treating, preventing, diagnosing speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders.
What are modalities?
The various ways in which we communicate.
Differentiate between receiving and sending modalities.
Receiving: auditory, visual, tactile.
Sending: verbal, graphic, visual
What is language?
The socially shared code for representing concepts through symbols and a combination of those symbols.
What is prosody?
Voice inflections that help listeners understand the intent of a message.
What are suprasegmentals?
Stress, pitch, rhythm, intensity, and sound of the voice.
What is linguistics?
The study of the structure and function of language and its rules.
What are phonemes?
Shortest unit of sound (p in pad).
What are morphemes?
The smallest unit of language; groups of sounds (in come -ing).
What is syntax?
The rules for combining words into sentences.
What is semantics?
The meaning of language or message.
What is pragmatics?
The rules governing use of language in social situations.
What is phonology?
The study of speech sounds and its system of rules.
What is speech?
The production of oral language through respiration, articulation, resonation, and phonation.
What is context?
The circumstances of events that form the environment within which something exists.
What is morphology?
The study of the structure of words.
Define speech disorders.
Abnormality of speech outside the acceptable range of variation.
Define language disorders.
Impairment of receptive/expressive linguistic symbols that affect comprehension or expression.
What is etiology?
The cause of an occurrence or disorder.
Differentiate between functional and organic disorder.
Functional disorder: no known basis.
Organic disorder: Anatomical, physiological, neurological basis.
What is articulation?
Modifying airstream into distinctive sounds to produce speech.
What are the articulators?
Mandible, tongue, lips, soft palate
