Saturday, November 10, 2007

Speech disrder - Language Development Problems

Describe the speech disorder - Language Development Problems

Definition
-inability to acquire speech as fast as peers
Why language acquisition is impt

4 salient points
-mean of communication
-facilitate learning
-language shapes how the user perceives the world
-acquistion of skills and knowledge with language

How do we know there is a language development problem
- when the child's linguistic rules and supply of concepts are severely limited and different from those of his peers.
two broad categories

Delayed

Definition
:display of verbal skills undeveloped in comparison to peers of the same age.

Problems
- limited vocabulary
-great difficulty in mastering the grammar of language
-problems with articulation with may hinder intelligiblity of language

Deviant

Definition
- not slower than peers
-create own idiosyncratic language that are different from the conventional usage of peers of same age

Problems
-limited repertoire of vocab and language
-difficulty even repeating simple sentences
- esp twins
(shared code of pronunciation patterns and structural pecularities)

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