Physical Barrier
M.S. is an acronym for
What is multiple sclerosis?
An acquired language disorder
What is aphasia?
The most commonly recognized cause of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Human-recorded speech used in an SGD.
What is digitized speech?
The group that published Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care.
What is the Joint Commission?
A disorder that causes a rapid decline in motor function due to destruction and subsequent regeneration of the myelin sheath of nerves
What is Guillain-Barre Syndrome?
An aphasia intervention technique when the speaker write and speaks the choices after asking a question.
What is written-choice conversation technique?
A degenerative condition that affects language first before affecting cognitive functioning.
What is primary progressive aphasia?
The term used to describe an AAC system that can be easily carried.
What is portability?
The third leading cause of death in the United States.
What are medical errors?
A syndrome characterized by no voluntary movement except for lateral eye movement.
What is Locked-In Syndrome?
The motor speech disorder that often co-occurs with non-fluent aphasia.
What is apraxia (acquired apraxia of speech)?
The technique where the person with dysarthria points to the first letter of the word they are saying on an alphabet board.
What is alphabet supplementation?
The type of display that integrates photographs of scenes of meaningful and motivating events.
What are visual scene displays?
The model that is used to identify participation patterns and communication needs.
What is the Participation Model?
The type of stroke that can affect all cranial nerve function.
What is a brain stem stroke?
Multi-modal communication
What is the use of many different modalities to communicate?
TBI is an acronym for
What is traumatic brain injury?
What is direct selection?
The location of two checklists related to patient-provider communication services?
What is the Online Companion Materials for the textbook?
The rate of speech that is an important factor for AAC planning for people with ALS.
What is half of their pre-ALS rate of speech?
The type of communicator who needs maximal support on the continuum of AAC support.
What is Emerging?
The Ranchos Los Amigos Scale Level that survivors may begin to use speech again.
What is 4-5?
The process of determining and recording communication messages for future use.
What is message banking?
The year the document "Advancing Effective Communication ...." was published.
What is 2010?