Communication_Disorders

Communication Disorders Communication Disorders Communication Disorders encompass a wide range of impairments, mainly dealing with “receiving, understanding, and expressing information, feelings, and ideas” (Turnbull 400). Normally, people possessing one or more of these disorders have problems with language, speech, or hearing (Kid 1). With new developments in education and methods of therapy, many of these disorders can be improved. Two of the three major types of communication disorders will be discussed within this paper. These include the areas of language and speech. Exceptional Lives defines a speech disorder as “the difficulty to produce sounds as well as disorders of voice or fluency of speech.” An individual with speech problems may have trouble following directions, speaking at a normal pace, and exhibiting correct syntax and articulation (Kid 1). The typical human is able to learn to speak with no problem, and the progression is somewhat miraculous. While people are unable to document or study the norms of speech development, the abnormalities can and have been thoroughly studied. Some speech impairments include articulation (a speaker’s production of individual or sequenced sounds), voice disorders, and fluency disorders (Turnbull 404-5). Voice disorders reflect “pitch, duration, intensity, disorders, students, speech, communication, language, turnbull, include, development, teachers, one, yet, word, voice, problems, people, help, fluency, while, very, understand, unable, two, syntax, sounds, sentence, respond, person, particular, over, normal, miraculous, methods, life, kid, instruction