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oral communication is important because it is the primary means for
- expressing feelings, ideas
- venting anxieties and frustrations
- for making requests and demands
- for controlling the behavior of others
- learning about the world
- providing information
- enabling a person to find about what is perceiving and thinking
- the very being we are is personified through our speech
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speech is a complex process supported by
- anatomic and neurophysiologic mechanisms that mediate perception, respiration ohonation, resonantion, and articulation
- and all the psychosocial perceptions of self and others that permit each of us to utilize speech for expression
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because of the intricacy f the physical aspects involved in speech and the enmeshment of our personage in our speech...
- generalizations about problems and their remediation should be made with caution.
- no two persons with a similar speech disorder may experience the same degree of disability
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sound system disorders could have far reaching repercussions on a person's:
- social-emotional well-being
- occupation
- interpersonal relationships
- speech sound disabilities constitute a large percentage of all communication disorders, making it the cause of much human distress and suffering
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social emotional effects
- 1. in early childhood, the child with deviant speech sounds experience unfavorable comments, teasing, ostracism, exclusion, labeling and frustrating
- -low sense of personal ability and low self esteem
- -indicator - prevalence of SSD disorders in today's prisons
- 2. there is a high relationship between communication disorders and emotional or behavioral disorders in children and adolescents
- -rate of co-ocurence between 50-70% across various settings
- -children with SSD demonstrate anxiety levels commensurate with the severity level of their disorder
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educational and occupational effects
- 1. teachers perceive students with speech and language disorders as porer performers in the classroom than their normal speaking peers
- -potentially negative effect on educational achievement
- 2. people including employers, associate disordered or different speech with ignorance, incompetence and even lack of intelligence
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societal penalty of CDO is related to 7 factors
- articulation demand
- ofsetting personal assets
- overprotection
- sensitivities, maladjustments or attitudes of the listeners
- attitudes of the speaker who is disabled
- peculiarity of the speech disorder
- degree of intelligibility
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Those related to articulation that attract the most attention and thereby draw the most penalties:
- 1. conspicuousness of the Articulatory disorder
- 2.Degree of intelligibility
- 3.Penalties may be overt or covert
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interpersonal effects of A/P Disorders
- 1. preschool children with articulation impairments initiated less frequent interactions with peers than their normal SL couterparts
- -SSD disabled children used shorter utterances
- -SSD disabled children used more non-verbals
- 2. elementary and high school students rate cohorts with SSD disorders more negatively on personality factors and using semantic descriptions
- 3. negative responses
- -younger children label them, tease, ridicule
- -older children and adults subtly overprotect, pity, condescension, impatience, avoidance, rejection
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SLPs reponsibility
- realizing that living with SSd has potentially devastating effects on quality of life through the devaluation of self assimilated by the reactions of communicative partners
- we must consider the involvement of the "person's spirit as an equally important aspect of the "condition"
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