language and literacy impairments
The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound
relationships to correctly pronounce written words.
What is decoding?
A symptom of stuttering where a patient holds a syllable sound for a longer duration.
What is prolongation?
Types of AAC
What are no-tech, low-tech, mid-tech, and high-tech?
The way sound is amplified as it passes through the vocal tract.
What is resonance?
A trained healthcare and education professional who
specializes in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating communication and swallowing disorders.
What is a speech language pathologist?
A child has trouble understanding, using, and processing spoken or written words at an age-appropriate level.
What is a childhood languge impairment?
When a patient's stutter is caused by psychological factors, often in response to stress, trauma, or anxiety.
What is psychogenic stuttering?
the principle muscle for speech production
Fluid-filled sacks on the vocal cords.
What are vocal cysts?
Other professions SLPs might work with.
What is an occupational therapist, a physical therapist, a dietitian, an audiologist and more?
When a child has trouble, reading, spelling and writing despite having normal intelligence.
What is SLDL or dyslexia?
A child has difficulty planning and coordinating the speech movements, even though they know what they want to say. This has to do with brain's ability to send information.
What is Apraxia?
The 3 systems responsible for voice production.
What are the respiratory, laryngeal, articulatory/resonating system?
A condition where the soft palate (velum) and the pharyngeal walls fail to close properly during speech or swallowing.
What is velopharyngeal dysfunction?
Examples of pre-lingutic skills.
What is smiles when spoken to, recognition of name, familiar to routines and more?
The measure of a child's language development that calculates the average length of their spoken utterances.
What is the mean length of utterance?
A contrastive phonological approach
that focuses on teaching children the difference between words that differ by only one
phoneme.
What is minimal therapy approach?
What person helps when deciding what type of selection is best suited for the patient?
What is an occupational therapist?
A patient comes in and claims that his voice has changed even after going through puberty. He most likely has?
What is puberphonia?
When a child has the ability to share attention with a partner on a specific thing.
What is joint attention?
A type of literacy intervention where the teacher reads first and the student repeats.
What is echo reading?
What is dysarthria?
This attempts to uncover the patient's physical abilities, seating and positioning challenges, cognitive and language abilities, and more.
What is an AAC assessment?
A patient has swelling in the vocal cords and tells you that they are a chronic smoker. What voice disorder do they most likely have?
What is Reinkes edema?
What is play?