Exam1_StudyGuide(1)

COMD 500 Study guide for Exam 1 This is to help guide your studies. It may not capture all the material that will be on the exam. This exam covers book readings from chapters 1, 2, 4, and 6 and lectures. However, you should be able to find most of the answers in the slides. Feel free to email me or come to the office hours if you have questions. Communication • What is communication? • Ways of communication • Three main purposes of communication • Review the framework for communication and breakdowns at each level • Verbal vs. Nonverbal communication • Communication Disorder vs. Difference o Difference o Code-switching • What is communication impairment? (be familiar with each type of the following impairments) o May be categorized according to whether reception, processing, and/or expression are affected o Can also be categorized by the components we discussed earlier (e.g., form, content, use; articulation, fluency, voice, etc.) • What is speech ? o Speech is defined as a neuromuscular act involving the precise coordination of which three systems. o Vocal fold vibration generates speech sounds. o MRI helps SLP examine the structures involved in speech o What are speech sound disorders? o …what else? • What is language? o Components of Language ( content, form, use ) & elements of the domain components ( semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, pragmatics ). Understand each of the terms! phonemes are the smallest contrastive unit of language o What is phonological awareness? o Language is specific to humans o …what else? • Communication Disorder Assessment and Intervention • Screening vs. formal assessments • Dynamic Assessment • Define intervention ( primary purposes: prevention, remediation, compensatory). Be familiar with each of them. • What do speech-language pathologists do? • The role of the SLP in the assessment and intervention of communication impairments