Speech Sound Disorders
Infants may experiment with this form of production defined as long strings of syllables with adult-like intonation.
Jargon
Segmenting a word and blending the sounds together to form a new word is known as ____________ .
Decoding
The term for "without language"
Aphasia
The most common form of stuttering that begins in the preschool years.
Developmental stuttering
The perceptual correlate of intensity measured in decibels.
Vocal loudness
By this age, infants are able to imitate tone and pitch and begin babbling.
4-6 months
The ability to manipulate sounds, such as blending sounds to create new words or segmenting words into phonemic sounds.
phonemic awareness
The basic unit of the nervous system.
Neuron
A child is considered to have a stuttering problem if they have more than _________ disfluencies per 100 spoken words.
10
The inflammation of vocal folds as a result of exposure to noxious agents, allergies, or vocal abuse.
Laryngitis
Place, manner, and voicing
Knowing what to do and how to do it including the aspects of self-appraisal and executive function.
Metacognition
The language center of the brain for most individuals is in this cerebral hemisphere.
Left hemisphere
Stuttering treatment that focuses on the child, the child's parents, and the child's environment.
Indirect treatment
Fluid filled lesions that develop when blood vessels rupture and swell.
vocal polyps
The neuromotor coordination required to produce speech sounds.
Articulation
Sound- letter correspondence is the definition for ___________.
phonics
Nonlinguistic and paralinguistic information is processed primarily in this cerebral hemisphere.
Right hemisphere
A form of stuttering treatment that modifies the child's speech and speech-related behaviors including the identification of "hard" and "easy" speech.
Direct stuttering treatment
The quality of the voice that is produced from sound vibrations in the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities.
Resonance
The correct use of speech sounds within a language that requires knowledge of sounds of the language and the rules that govern their production.
phonology
The field of linguistics focused on the study of the forms and formation of words in language.
Morphology
Aphasia characterized by fluent speech with rapid-fire strings of sentences with little pause for acknowledgement or turn-taking.
Wernicke's Aphasia
Eye blinking, ___________, and exaggerated movements of the head, shoulders, and arms are secondary characteristics that can accompany speech stuttering.
Facial grimacing
Voice disorders may involve deviations of pitch, loudness, and ___________ .
Quality