screenings
Every child should have one of these and a complete evaluation if they have speech difficulties. Screened at 20 dB, 1000 dB, 2000 dB and 4000 dB.
What is a hearing screening?
Van der Woude syndrom causes this on the lips.
What are pits?
These sit in posterior oral cavity and can be enlarged and intrude into the pharyngeal cavity. They are not an asset in speech
What are the tonsils?
Do diadochokinetic rates increase or decrease with age?
what is increase?
This score cannot be used for interpretation, it must first be converted.
What is a raw score?
These are used to differentiate between structural restrictions and impairment of speech function. Should be preformed during the initial speech and language evaluation.
What is an oral peripheral exam?
There are 20 of these teeth.
What are deciduous (baby) teeth?
These are the primary site of velopharyngeal closure in children.
What are the adenoids?
You must use caution when using this to interpret diadochokinetic rates.
what is normative data?
This in an index of whether we were to administer a test on a different day, statistically where would the childs standard score be likely to fall?
What is confidence interval?
The most common OPE conducted on children.
What is the verbal motor production assessment for children (VMPAC)?
Class two occlusion.
What is an overbite?
If they adenoids are enlarged they obstruct the posterior aspect of the nasal chamber causing what?
what is denasality?
Diadokinesis is testing this when a child is producing sequences.
Sounds that occur at least how many times are considered marginal?
What is one to two times?
During an OPE this is tested to see if there is any movement during sustained phonation.
What is the soft palate?
This syndrom causes an underdeveloped facial skeletal system, conductive hearing loss, retracted jaw and open mouth posture.
What is treacher collins syndrome?
The larynx can have unilateral paresis of what nerve? This is common in impairments like hemifacial microsomia.
what is the vagus nerve?
To get diadochokinetic rates SLPs can measure the number of repetitons in a given time period or?
This level of phonetic inventory includes syllabic, sonorant, consonantal, coronal features. Labial/alveolar place, voice contrast as well as the inclusion of fricatives and affricates.
What is level C?
There is no evidence to support that this type of therapy can help a child with their speech.
What is nonspeech oral motor exercise programs?
To test the palate during an OME, what is done? Used to test for a submucosal cleft palate.
What is palpate and touch the hard palate with a gloved hand?
what is hemifacial microsomia?
Producing rapidly alternating articulatory movements.
what is diadochokinesis?
If a PCC is >85% what is its severity?
What is mild?