Anatomy
The only bone in the human body that doesn't connect to any other bone?
What is the hyoid?
The use of tools to fully replace the human voice.
What is alternative communication?
When someone has difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
When sound can't travel through the ear canal, it may still be transmitted by this mechanism.
What is bone conduction?
This elevates during swallowing to protect the airway.
What is the larynx?
The flap that protects the airway during breathing
What is the epiglottis?
The use of high frequency words to promote communication across contexts.
What is core vocabulary?
This community does not see hearing loss as a 'disorder' and uses a sign system for communication.
What is being culturally deaf?
Sounds are transmitted by the ear drum (tympanum) to these bones.
What are the incus, malleus, and stapes (ossicles)?
This structure moves food from the front to the back of the mouth.
What is the tongue?
This elevates to close off the nasal passages during speech and swallowing.
What is the vellum?
This genetic disorder causes low muscle tone that might make speech difficult to understand, thus making the use of AAC a possible treatment.
What is Down syndrome?
This is considered to be a perceptual disorder.
Hearing loss or deafness.
This structure is what we usually call the outer ear.
What is the pinna?
This is indicated when you hears a wet sound during speech following a meal.
What is aspiration?
(or penetration)
When the larynx elevates, this opens to allow food to enter the esophagus.
What is the Upper Esophageal Sphincter (UES)?
This is a better way to check that an AAC user understands a concept, rather than just pressing a single button.
What is describing a concept?
When we don't know the exact cause of a disorder, we call it this.
What is a functional disorder?
These tiny structures on the cochlea turn mechanical energy into a electrical impulses.
What are hair cells?
This may be performed to test for an unsafe swallow.
Video fluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS)
A fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)
These get you dizzy when you spin in a circle.
What are the semi-circular canals?
This is a human right, no matter what form it takes?
What is communication?
This congenital disorder may cause difficulty with coordinating the muscles for a safe swallow.
What is cerebral palsy?
This transmits sounds from the cochlea to the rest of the brain.
The eight auditory nerve.
An efficient swallow requires these three things.
What are strength, timing, and coordination?