FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Autism Spectrum, Language Disorder, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2110
• Professor: Taniesha Burkes

Document Summary

Communication involved sharing information between two individuals or among more than two individuals. Communicative functions include requesting, rejecting, commenting, arguing, reasoning and so on. Communication disorders may involved language or speech or both, and they impair communicative functions. Language is sending and receiving ideas-expression and reception- through an arbitrary system of symbols used according to rules. Speech is the neuromuscular activity of forming and sequencing the sounds of oral language. Reasonable estimates are that about 5 to 10 percent preschool children and students in elementary and secondary grades have speech disorders. Probably about 2 to 5 percent of preschoolers are about 5 to 10 percent of the school-age population have language disorders. Differences include dialects, regional differences, language of ethnic minority groups, and non dominant languages. An individual with a difference that is not a disorder is an effective communicator in his language community, whereas someone with a disorder has impaired communication in all language environments.