Aphasia
Aphasia is most often caused by damage to this hemisphere of the brain.
What is the left hemisphere?
Early intervention services provided under IDEA Part C generally serve children from birth until they reach this age.
What is age 3?
Poor oral health, impaired airway protection, and compromised health status
What are the three pillars of aspiration pneumonia?
what are the five domains of language?
what is phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
These two processes are like cognates both in the family of substitutions when alveolar sounds are substituted with velar or palatal sounds and vice versa/conversely (e.g. "kime for time and tan for can").
What is Backing/Fronting ?
A child who pronounces words using features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), such as saying “aks” instead of “ask”, which follows a rule-governed linguistic system of their primary speech community.
What is a Dialectical Difference ?
One fluency approach focuses on changing the way a person speaks to increase fluency, while another focuses on modifying stuttering moments and reducing struggle and tension. What are these two approaches called?
What are fluency shaping and stuttering modification?
This term describes a naming error response where a patient talks around a target word (e.g., saying "the thing you drive" instead of "car")
What is circumlocution?
Under IDEA Part C, early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities should be provided, when appropriate, in the settings where children naturally live, learn, and play. What is this setting called?
What are natural environments?
This diagnostic exam uses real-time X-rays and barium to evaluate a patient's swallowing mechanism and check for aspiration.
What is a videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS) or modified barium swallow study (MBSS)?
This neurodevelopmental disorder includes persistent difficulties in social communication AND restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.
What is autism spectrum disorder (ASD)?
This process is in the family of substitutions when a fricative or affricate is substituted with a stop (e.g. "pat for fat").
What is Stopping ?
I work on the medical side performing bedside swallow and instrumental evaluations responding to rapid situations in which a patient's status can change in a matter of minutes.
What is adult, dysphagia, acute care-hospital?
A 24-month-old toddler who uses fewer than 10 spoken words, but understands simple one-step directions well, points to objects to show intent, and uses gestures like waving.
What is an Expressive Language Delay ?
___________is characterized by
what is cluttering
This specific structure allows the left and right hemispheres of the brain to communicate.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
An SLP is working with a 2-year-old who uses few spoken words. During play, the child reaches toward a favorite toy but does not communicate a request. Instead of immediately prompting the child to say the word, the SLP pauses and creates an opportunity for the child to communicate using gestures, sounds, signs, or AAC. What EI intervention principle is the SLP using?
What is supporting multimodal (total) communication?
This diagnostic exam lets an SLP directly view vocal fold movement, observe secretion management, and watch a patient eat an entire meal without any radiation exposure.
What is a Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES)?
A 3rd-grade student can answer literal comprehension questions but struggles to explain why a character behaved a certain way. The SLP teaches the student to combine information from the text with clues and prior knowledge to determine an answer. What comprehension skill is being targeted?
What is inferencing?
These two are like cognates both in the family of syllable structures occurring when the final consonant or consonant cluster is left off and vice versa/conversely when the first consonant or consonant cluster is left off (e.g. "ma for mom and oy for toy")
What is Final Consonant Deletion/Initial Consonant Deletion ?
I work with infants both in clinic and home co-treating too depending on their IFSP and percentage delay mainly with dx involving failure to thrive when eating/drinking.
What is birth to 3, feeding, early intervention?
A 4-year-old child who cannot follow simple multi-step directions, rarely uses pronouns or verb tenses correctly, and communicates in fragmented, disorganized phrases that do not mirror typical toddler progression.
What is Expressive/Receptive Language Disorder ?
__________stuttering occurs when a person stutters openly with minimal attempts to suppress or conceal.
what is overt
This type of fluent aphasia is characterized by intact repetition skills but impaired naming and comprehension.
What is Transcortical Sensory Aphasia?
This approach emphasizes partnering with caregivers by helping them use strategies during everyday routines, rather than having the professional work with the child independently.
What is caregiver coaching (or a family-centered coaching approach)?
A clinical protocol that allows carefully selected dysphagia patients to drink un-thickened water between meals under strict oral hygiene rules.
What is the Frazier Free Water Protocol?
Using Brown’s system for computing mean length of utterance in a language sample, which of the following utterances would be scored as having two morphemes
Bought
doggie
walked
sticky
choo-choo
walked
This process is in the family of syllable structures occurring when an unstressed vowel, typically the "uh" schwa sound is added between two consonants (e.g. "puhlate for plate").
What is Epenthesis ?
I love learning from my caseload watching children develop into young adults in their confidence especially in social situations and presenting in front of staff/students too!
What is school-aged/adolescents, fluency, schools?
A 5-year-old child whose speech sounds are so heavily distorted or omitted that unfamiliar listeners cannot understand them, requiring targeted clinical intervention rather than simple maturation.
What is an Articulation/Phonological/Speech Sound Disorder ?
___________ is a set of behaviors that accompany moments of stuttering and that may or may not be associated with an attempt to prevent overt stuttering. These behaviors range from being very subtle to being highly noticeable, and speakers may or may not be aware of them. Examples of secondary behaviors include
what is secondary stuttering or concomitant stuttering
This treatment technique utilizes the intact right hemisphere of the brain by embedding rhythm and song melodies into phrase production
What is Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT)?
This legally required document identifies the family's priorities and concerns and outlines outcomes and services for an infant or toddler receiving Early Intervention.
What is an IFSP (Individualized Family Service Plan)?
During an instrumental swallow study (VFSS/MBSS or FEES), you observe a bolus pass directly into the trachea. The patient has no spontaneous cough/throat clear response
What is silent aspiration?
A 6 year old child produces /t/ for /s/, /d/ for /z/, /p/ for /f/, and /b/ for /v/. Intervention for this problem would target language at the level of ___________________
Phonology
This process is in the family of assimilations when two phonemes are substituted with a different phoneme that has similar features (e.g. "fop for stop").
What is Coalescence ?
I enjoy the intensity of handling multiple medically complex patients involving MVA w/c bound, trach/vent care to help aid phonation while maintaining breath support.
What are young adults, voice, LTAC-Long Term Acute Care?
A 3-year-old child who says “tat” for “cat” or drops final consonants like “ba” for “ball”—common errors that typically resolve naturally or with minimal support a bit later.
What is a Speech Production Delay ?
The third approach that helps speakers reduce negative reactions is _____________________—a strategy designed to help speakers change the way they think about themselves and their speaking situations. Individuals learn to
what is cognitive restructuring?