SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Expressive Language Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Language Processing In The Brain
7 Dec 2016
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Language disorder: when an individual exhibits significant and persistent difficulties with the comprehension or expression of spoken or written language: the disorder is somehow impacting form, content, and/or use. Describing language disorders: significant, persistent, reception, expression, spoken, written, language delay, language impairment, language disorder. Have a social, psychological, and educational impact on a person"s life. Primary language disorder: occurs without any other disability that would be accountable (not linked to something else: developmental language disorders. Secondary language disorder: occurs as a consequence of another disorder, such as: Intellectual disability: hearing loss, autism spectrum disorder. Language is: a shared code, symbolic, arbitrary: not necessarily an obvious connection between the symbols and the things they represent, multi-modal. Classification of language disorders focuses on three key features: etiology: what causes it, manifestation, severity. Etiology: primary vs secondary disorders, developmental: disorder that is present from birth, acquired: disorder that is acquired sometime after birth, result of some insult or injury.
