Linguistics
A socially shared code using symbols to represent concepts.
What is Language?
It is a structure that separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
What is the tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
Type of language impairment caused by left-hemisphere stroke.
What is aphasia (e.g. anomia)?
What is otitis media (ear infection)?
What are phonemes?
It is under "content" and relates to meaning.
What is semantics?
This person diagnosis hearing loss.
What is an audiologist?
A paraphasia characterized by a made-up word.
What is a neologism?
A unit of measure for loudness.
What is a decibel (dB)?
A pitch change when speaking to convey meaning.
What is intonation (relates to prosody)?
An oral means of language transfer.
What is speech?
A device that would enable a person with severe-profound SNHL to hear.
What is a cochlear implant?
It is a traveling obstruction in an artery that can cause a stroke.
What is an embolism (or clot)?
This is a unit of measure for sound frequency.
What are Hertz (Hz)?
It is the term for severe motor speech impairment resulting in imprecise articulation.
What is apraxia of speech?
The ability to share a conversation on a given topic.
What are pragmatics?
It is the area of damage when someone has a sensorineural hearing loss.
What are the hair cells of the cochlea (or auditory nerve)?
It is the term for an area of dead (neural) tissue.
What is an infarct?
An essential component for a deaf child with a CI to hear and speak.
What is auditory verbal therapy (or speech therapy)?
The term for a person who has had his "voice box" removed.
What is a laryngectomee?
The technical term for "-est" in the word "biggest."
What is a morpheme?
This structure separates the middle ear from the inner ear.
What is the oval window and/or the round window?
A type of aphasia characterized by fluent speech, anomia, and poor comprehension.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
It is an assistive listening device that transmits sound directly to a hearing aid.
What is an FM system?
The age at which the majority of children can say all their speech sounds.
What is a 6-year-old?