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Indigenous Language and Mental Health Recent studies (Walls, Hautala, and Hurley, 2014) have reported the association between language dispossession and a steady increase in suicide rates amongst First Nations youth in Canada. Indeed, the ability to articulate inner psychological experiences, and its association with mental health has been the focus of many psychological researches around the world. For instance, Şimşek (2010) contributed to the conceptualization of language as a determinant…

HI I'm Raiden a sixteen year old high school Student whose life has been drastically change due to this Mental illness. Lets start when I was first starting to communicate I was 3 The mental illness would make me pay more attention to surrounding sounds and that what I used to communicate. I never learned to fully speak until I was 10 years old. people used to judge my parents because I couldn't talk and thought I was being neglected. which in reality I was just being myself. eventually I got…

The Alphabetic Principle involves the understanding that sounds of letters and that letters represent sounds are combined to form represent sounds are combined to form words. Between the spoken sounds and the written language, a connection is made. Based on a relationship between systematic sounds, written letters, and spoken words, letters and their combinations are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds. The Alphabetic Principle is composed of three parts. They are letter naming,…

Sophia’s literacy development in the area of language shows a normal sign developmentally for a 9 year old child. She is a fluent speaker of English, and she speaks Spanish as well. Sophia speaks standard English comfortably, she rarely uses slang or vernacular dialect. Sophia’s phonemic awareness becomes strong which she is able to identify and manipulate the sounds. She is no problem in constructing complex sentences at her age, she can speak long declaratives which include clauses. For…

The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in “A Costly Treasure” by describing the figurative language. She is describing it to let you know what she is seeing. The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in A Costly Treasure for example, the passage stated that a rock “looked like someone’s petrified brain.” This is figurative language because a rock can’t actually be a petrified brain. This is also figurative language because the author was…

than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning” (Angelou 98). While written word can communicate a message, spoken word can convey additional subtleties, such as tone, inflection, and body language. The fiery passion and energy conveyed through speech can move an audience and can evoke emotion. Unlike written word, spoken word can also more easily persuade others because it has a more immediate effect as opposed to writing. One’s voice…

An excerpt from Susan Sontag’s book Illness opens a reader up to a realization that metphors used in relation to illness are the “ill prejudiced by the lurid metphors with which it has been landscaped”. Sontag’s attitude towards metaphors comes from her strong understanding of how they are just a made up illusion to capture an audience. Metaphors are just a made up illusion to capture an audience because they elude the seriousness of a true illness and dishonor it does to an illness. Sontag has…

linguistics 1. Introduction “[....] the listener does not necessarily hear what was said, but rather hears their construction of what they think is said; they subconsciously combine the speech signal (the sounds) with prior knowledge of speech, language and context in their own heads (Fraser 2003, cited in Coulthard, et al 2017 p.130). Those words, indirectly, call for reconsideration of distinguishing a voice as a natural task. Coulthard, et al 2017 mentioned in the findings of a study done…

phonological and articulatory impairments can be developmental impairment in speech-sound production, language impairment in their production of sounds of the language, hearing impairments which enable them to acquire speech sounds or neuromuscular disorder that can cause weakness, paralysis or poor coordination of speech muscles. 2) What are some speech characteristics of a child with a language learning disability? Some of the characteristics…

parents, there are some physical problems that she had when she was discovered whereby she is not able to express herself which means that she couldn’t talk and had the language as the baby. This indicates that she is not being exposed by her parents to any significant amount of speech as it shows that she did not acquire language during her childhood. Her father did this as he thinks that her daughter was mentally retarded. Next, she also couldn’t walk properly and the characteristic of her…