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Speech or Language Impairment - Coggle Diagram
Speech or Language Impairment
Definition
a communication disorder in the ares of articulation, voice, fluency, or language that adversely affects a child's educational performance
Criteria
articulation: errors are primarily characterized by substitutions, distortions, additions, and omissions.
Voice: 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
Fuency: abnormally dysfluent speech
Language: syntactic, morphologic, semantic, and/or pragmatic errors are observed
Evaluative Components
A minimum of one standardized or formal measure that assesses the child's articulation/phonological skills.
• Written documentation of a stimulability assessment as part of the standardized or formal measure or as a separate assessment.
• Written documentation of the impact of intelligibility on connected speech.
• Written documentation of an examination of oral structures and functioning.
• The eligibility team must obtain written documentation from the child’s teacher and/or caregiver that the child’s articulation skills adversely affect his or her involvement and/or progress in the general education curriculum and/or environment.
• A summary of all required evaluations must be included on the eligibility report.
How to Recognize
mispronounces sounds and words
omits word endings
using an immature vocabulary
difficulty following directions
questions are inaccurate or vague
difficulty with reading or writing