Speech and Language Disorders
The two categories of communication disorders.
What are language and speech disorders?
By the first grade, this percentage of children have noticeable speech disorders. (asha.org)
What is 5%?
Large bundle of nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus collosum.
Because tomorrow is Saturday we can stay up late tonight.
True or False: It is okay to date the parent of one of your students.
What is False
Individuals with this disorder lack eye contact and social reciprocity.
What is pragmatic disorder?
How many Americans have communication disorders, costing the U.S. approximately $154–186 billion annually. (asha.org) (hint: it's in the millions)
What is 40 million?
Damage to this part of the brain results in a patient with left visual neglect, discourse and pragmatic deficits, impulsive behaviors and/or poor awareness.
What is the right hemisphere
How are a sink and a bathtub the same?
What is The Language Processing Test - 3 Elementary
True or False: You have a student who moved out of the state (temporarily due to COVID) and they have IEP services. You are allowed to provide telehealth services to that student because they are from your district.
What is FALSE - you may not provide services to a student who is located in a state in which you are not licensed.
The disorder in which a student has difficulty understanding the rules of word order.
What is a syntactic disorder?
The prevalence of autism in children in the U.S (as reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (i.e. 1 in ___).
What is 1 in 68 children in the United States. This includes 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls. (autismspeaks.org)
These are the frequencies tested during pure tone audiometry.
What are: 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000hz
The sad edges of the young moon's frown curved around the tree tops arms.
What is the OWLS - 2
True or False: The workload calculator to determine caseloads is optional for school districts.
What is FALSE - all districts should be using this calculator to determine workload for SLPs in their district.
A disorder in which a student uses excessively fast speech that is very jerky (a fluency disorder)
What is cluttering?
Percentage of strokes that result in aphasia
The percentage of intelligibility expected for a child of 48 months.
What is 100%
A student in your class has very bad breath. He wants you to sit next to him in the computer lab, but you don't want to have to smell his breath. What could you say to your classmate about sitting next to him?
What is the Social Language Development Test - Elementary
True or False: If you forget to renew your license, you may provide services to students as long as you renew during the 30 day grace period.
What is FALSE - you may not see any students (or supervise grad students) during the time your license has lapsed.
The disorder in which a student often uses "thing & stuff" as well as "that & there".
What is a semantic disorder?
The number of Americans who have some form of language impairment. (asha.org)
What is 6-8 million?
The manner of articulation that is made by complete vocal tract closure followed by a sudden release of constriction.
What is a stop or plosive.
Tinka is Jeremy's favorite zoo animal, with very large eyes, large floppy ears, wrinkly gray skin and a tail that looks like a small paintbrush. Tinka picks up carrots, her favorite treat, with her trunk. (Second chance if you can't name the test: Why wouldn't Jeremy be likely to have a pet like Tinka at his apartment?)
What is The Test of Auditory Processing - 3
Bonus - because elephants don't live in apartments
True or False: You may not see a student outside of school for speech/language services because it is considered a dual relationship.
Make your best guess as I am still waiting to hear from Gregg on that.