Our Job
This is our full title, shortened to SLP.
What is speech-language pathologist?
Average age of first word.
What is 12 months or 1 year.
In order to protect your ears, many choose to wear ______ when they are around very loud noises.
What are headphones or ear plugs?
The brain is divided into the Left Hemisphere and the Right Hemisphere. Language is located in the ____ hemisphere.
What is Left Hemisphere
President Biden has this Communication Disorder
What is Stuttering or Dysfluency
What do SLPs work on with children, students, or adults?
What is Speech- (producing sounds correctly, like /s/, /th/, /l/)
Language - (Understanding/Comprehension of words, sentences, directions - Expressing language clearly - joining words to make sentences.)
Higher Level language skills - (Making Predications, Making Inferences, Understanding non-literal language, Sarcasm)
Social Communication/Pragmatics- (Turn taking, Maintaining a conversation, non-verbal body language)
Voice Disorders
Fluency/Stuttering
Cognition - (memory, attention, organization, sequencing, problem solving)
The last sound to develop in children and the hardest sound to learn and to teach.
What is R
These, which people usually use to clean their ears, can actually hurt your ears and cause hearing loss if you aren't careful! Don't stick them into your ears too far!
What are Q-Tips?
This structure is located in the neck and used to make sounds for speaking and singing.
What is the Larynx/Vocal folds/Voice box?
The profession most likely to develop a voice problem.
Who are teachers? (Cheerleaders, Singers...)
Speech language pathologists ranked #35 on the U.S New Report's Top 100 jobs. True or False
What is True!
True or False Most adults know about 10,000 words.
What is FALSE (20,000-35,000 words)!!
True or False Listening to noise levels regularly above 75 decibels (approximately the amount of noise made by a vacuum cleaner) can result in someone having hearing loss over time.
What is TRUE!!
What is the most important thing we use to articulate speech sounds?
What is the Tongue
Why is great speech and language important?
What is people can understand what I am trying to say or write; so I can express clearly what I want to say or write.
How many SLPs are at CHS and what are their names?
What are 2
Who are Mrs. Rainier and Mrs. Todd
Why do I say Language is everywhere or Communication is everything?
What is _____________
Sitting in front of a speaker at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will damage your hearing in only ____
5 min
7.5 min
1 hr
What is 7.5 min?
The three smallest bones are located here _____
Ear
Throat
Hands
What is Ear?
(Smallest bones are: malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup. Located in the inner ear.)
Over the years, what have you worked on in speech-language therapy?
What is _________