SLP Fun Facts
How many scopes of practice do SLPs have?
9!
In this access method, the person makes a choice by listening for the desired item and then selects it
what is auditory scanning?
The ability to understand and comprehend language.
What is receptive language?
What does PMV stand for?
Bonus if you know what it does
Passy-Muir Valve
What is Speech Generating Device?
Communication boards/books, pictures, and real objects all compose this form of AAC.
what is low tech?
This commonly misused term refers to the meaning of language.
What is semantics?
The vital protective mechanism that clears the airways of irritants, pathogens, and secretions through a coordinated neural and muscular response
Cough reflex
How many bones are in your middle ear?
3
can you name them?
True or false: An AAC device will prevent a child from ever learning to talk.
False
This is the ability to use language through speech, gestures, sign language, or AAC.
What is expressive language?
True or False: Being bilingual causes a language delay
FALSE!
IDDSI
International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative
True or false: Only users who are nonverbal should use AAC.
False
The characteristics of eye contact, joint attention, and turn-taking skills correspond to this type of language.
What is pragmatic language?
What does this say?:
/aɪ æm ˈɡoʊɪŋ tu ðə zu/
I am going to the zoo
CCC
What is Certificate of Clinical Competence?
The abbreviation AAC stands for this.
what is augmentative alternative communication
The rules of word order and word combinations in order to form phrases and sentences.
What is Syntax?