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Speech/Language Impairment (How to recognize disability in the classroom.,…
Speech/Language Impairment
Definition
A communication disorder in the area of articulation, voice, fluency, or language that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Criteria
Areas include:
Articulation
Errors are primarily characterized by substitutions, distortions, additions, and omissions.
vision/hearing screening results are satisfactory
Voice
vision/hearing screening results are satisfactory
The child’s voice is abnormal in vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance and/or duration and is inappropriate for the child's age and gender.
Fluency.
vision/hearing screening results are satisfactory
(ii) Abnormally dis-fluent speech is observed during conversation and/or structured speaking tasks.
Language
Vision/hearing screening results are satisfactory.
Syntactic, morphologic, semantic, and/or pragmatic errors are observed. The child’s ability to comprehend or use spoken language is adversely affected.
A total language standard score or quotient of at least two standard deviations below the mean (70 or below) on a standardized comprehensive language test containing both receptive and expressive components must be obtained.
Evaluations
Area of suspected disability
Articulation/Phonological Disorder.
A minimum of one standardized or formal measure that assesses the child's articulation/phonological skills.
Vision/hearing screening
Voice Disorder
A minimum of one formal measure that assesses the child’s pitch, loudness, quality, inflection and resonance.
Vision/hearing screening
Fluency Disorder.
A minimum of one formal measure that assesses the child’s dis-fluency patterns.
Vision and hearing screening
Language Disorder.
A minimum of one standardized or formal comprehensive measure that assesses both receptive and expressive language skills must be administered.
Vision and hearing screening
How to recognize disability in the classroom.
Stuttering
Speaking in fragmented phrases.
States words in the wrong order
Struggles with using and understanding words