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What Is Linguistic Disability???: Let's Brainstorm For A While

Linguistic disabilities refer to impairments in communication through production, reception, or comprehension of language. Some common types include deafness, autism, cerebral palsy, stuttering, aphasia/dysphasia, alexia/dyslexia, agraphia/dysgraphia, ataxia, aphonia/dysphonia, puberphonia/androphonia, and hypernasality/hyponasality. Speech language pathologists help treat individuals with linguistic disabilities through therapies tailored to their specific condition.

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What Is Linguistic Disability???: Let's Brainstorm For A While

Linguistic disabilities refer to impairments in communication through production, reception, or comprehension of language. Some common types include deafness, autism, cerebral palsy, stuttering, aphasia/dysphasia, alexia/dyslexia, agraphia/dysgraphia, ataxia, aphonia/dysphonia, puberphonia/androphonia, and hypernasality/hyponasality. Speech language pathologists help treat individuals with linguistic disabilities through therapies tailored to their specific condition.

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Let’s brainstorm for a while

What is linguistic
disability???
Specific
Specific Linguistic
Linguistic
Disabilities
Disabilities
•Linguistic inability in production, reception or
comprehension which partially or totally prevents human
communication
•Speech language pathologist help the linguistic disable
» individual therapy
» vocational teachers
» modern technology
Different Types OF
Linguistic Disabilities
• Deafness
• Autism
• Cerebral Palsy
• Stuttering
• Aphasia/ Dysphasia
• Alexia / Dyslexia
• Agraphia/ Dysgraphia
• Ataxia
• Aphonia/ Dysphonia
• Puberphonia/ Androphonia
• Hypernasality/ hyponasality
• Deafness:
refers to loss of hearing
it varies according to the degree
1) profound or total deafness (90db-120db
(Profound or total deafness is very rare. )

2) severe deafness ( 60db-90db)


3) moderate deafness (30db-60db)
4) mild deafness (10db-30db)
Different Types of
Deafness
• Conductive • Sensorineural
• Monaural / • Binaural / bilateral
unilateral (only one (both ears)
ear) • Acquired
• Congenital • Old age
• Childhood
Autism
• Disorder of the human central nervous system or
neurodevelopmental disorder
• Seen before the age of three years
• It is inability to interact, communicate etc .
Cerebral Palsy
• An umbrella term for various non progressive, non-
contagious neurological disorders.
• Non progressive disorders in motor function in people
resulting from the brain damage at around the time of birth
• The causes are not quite obvious
• No cure for this disease but the patient can be facilitated
by various forms of therapy
Stuttering
• Comes from word STUTTER which means to say
something haltingly, repeating sounds frequently
when attempting to pronounce them, either from
nervousness or as the result of a speech disorder
• It is speech disorder characterized by involuntary
hesitations and rapid repetitions of speech
elements. In severe cases, grimacing and sputtering
—that is, violent explosions of breath following a
halt—are common. Stuttering occurs in about 1 per
cent of the population; it has been found to be
most common in males, twins, and left-handed
people (Source: Encarta Reference Library 2007)
• Not a problem with the physical production of a
speech sound
• Some authorities ascribe it to a psychological cause,
while others claim it is organic (natural); the true
cause remains uncertain
Aphasia or Dysphasia
• Introduced by a French doctor to denote inability to
express thought by means of language because of
brain disorder
• Loss of linguistic abilities
• If the loss is profound, it is called aphasia
• If the loss is mild, it is called dysphasia
• Different types of aphasia are
• Broca’s aphasia
• Wernick’s aphasia
• Nominal aphasia
• Global Aphasia
ALEXIA / DYSLEXIA
• Loss of reading ability
• Two types
1. Agnostic Alexia (word blindness)
2. Aphastic Alexia

AGRAPHIA / DYSGRAPHIA
• Inability to write despite the organs to write are normal
or expressive writing disorder of language
• Caused by a disease in the parietal lobe of the brain
AGNOSIA
• A receptive disability
• Can see or hear but cannot make the
way out
• Two types
1. Auditory
2. Visual
APRAXIA / DYSPRAXIA

• Difficulty getting our body to do what we want


• ‘Productive’ or ‘Expressive’ disability
• It might be acquired or developmental
• Brain’s immature way of performance
• Different types
1. Constructional
2. Appraxia for dressing
3. Verbal/ Speech
ANARTHRIA / DYSARTHRIA
• A speech disordering resulting from
neurological injury
• It affects speech subsystem
• Speech sounds are blurred e.g. a person
with anarthria might say mm………..nnn
for ‘man’
ATAXIA
• Lack of co-ordination between different muscles of
one’s body
• It results in a jerky, unsteady, to and fro motion of
the trunk or the limbs

APHONIA/ DYSPHONIA
• Medical term for the inability to speak
• APHONIA means no voice
PUBERPHONIA/ANDROPHONIA

• The development of voice disorder in male is known as


puberphonia and
• Disorder of voice in female is known as androphonia
HYPERNASALITY/HYPONASALITY
• Hypernasality is the effect of the abnormal nasal
quality in the voice
• Hyponasality is the effect of denasal quality in voice

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