Speech and Language Disorders

Producing speech sounds is referred to as ...

• Listening Comprehension

• Articulation

• Stuttering

• Social Communication

One sign of a voice disorder is ...

• Hoarseness

• Expressive Language

• Phonological Awareness

• Limited Vocabulary

When a student stutters, you should ...

• Finish their words for them

• Ask them to repeat what they said without stuttering

• Model slow, easy, calm speech

• Ask them to slow down

The two levels of rhyme development are ...

• Segmenting and Deleting

• Identification and Production

• Adding and Substituting

• Isolating and Blending

Students with social communication disorders tend to ...

• Express themselves appropriately

• Make inferences appropriately

• Understand conversational rules

• Be very literal

Students with expressive language disorders ...

• Can have limited vocabulary

• Can tell age appropriate stories

• Can adequately express their wants and needs

• Can combine words to make complex sentences

Students with receptive language disorders have difficulty ...

• Speaking fluently

• Saying speech sounds correctly

• Following directions

• Using a healthy voice

Children typically master producing the /r/ phoneme correctly by age ...

• 6

• 4

• 5

• 3

Some stuttering traits include ...

• Exhibiting syllable repetitions and prolongations

• Saying /r/ and /l/ sounds incorrectly

• Difficulty understanding directions and "Wh" questions

• Difficulty telling stories and using appropriate vocabulary

A phonemic awareness deficiency may cause a student to have trouble ...

• Understanding what is said to them

• Following directions

• Using clear speech

• Segmenting sounds in words