Communication Disorders

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

Persistent difficulties understanding or using language/speaking clearly

Question 2

Language Disorder

Answer 2

Impairments in ability to produce or understand spoken language

Difficulties understanding words or sentences, certain word types, spatial terms, or sentence types

Question 3

Speech Sound Disorder

Answer 3

persistent difficulty articulating sounds of speech in absence of defects in speech mechanism or neurological impairment

• affects ch, f, l, r, sh, th sounds, extreme cases b, m, t, d, n, h
• “baby talk”
• talk therapy helpful most cases resolved themselves by 8

Question 4

Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder

Answer 4

Stutter - difficulty speaking fluently with appropriate timing of speech sounds

Begins between 2 and 7. 3x more likely in boys most overcome problem by 16

Tend to be more emotionally reactive than non stuffterers

Characterized by 1 or more of the following:

1. repetitions of sounds and syllables
2. prolongations of certain sounds
3. Interjections of inappropriate sounds
4. Broken Words
5. Blocking of Speech
6. Circumlocutions
7. Displaying an excess of physical tension when emitting words
8. Repetitions of monosyllabic whole words

Question 5

Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder

Answer 5

New to DSM

kids who have continuing and profound difficulties communicating verbally and nonverbally with other people in school, home or play

difficulty acquiring both spoken and written language

Do not have low level of language or mental abilities

Question 6

Treatment

Answer 6

Specialized speech and language therapy

fluency training: learning to speak more slowly and to regulate one’s breathing & progressing from simpler to more complex words and sentences

Psychological counseling for anxiety in speaking situations for stutterers