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What does HIPPA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The average age of first words
1 year
Validity
logically and factually sound
Bell curve represents
top of the curves shows the mean, mode, and median of the data collected. its standard deviation depicts the bell curves relative width around the mean
Examples of high-frequency speech sounds
/f/ /s/ /sh/ (harder to hear)
What does NPI stand for
National Provider Identifier Number
Mean length of utterance for an 18 month old child
1.5 mlu
Reliability
being trustworthy or performing consistently well
Language Sample Purpose
understanding clients communication skills, 50-200 utterances, obtained in spontaneous situations and then analyzed
Gestational Age
number of weeks from conception at which the child is born
What does FERPA stand for
Family and Education Rights and Privacy Act
Mean length of utterance for an 2 year old child
2 mlu
Conductive hearing loss
obstruction in outer or middle ear (temporary)- ear infections, affects the lower frequencies, normal bone conduction, loss shows up in air conduction
Advatnages to narrative retell vs spontanous speech sample
provides structure and context, supports comprehension, prompts specific language targets
Last phonemes mastered (and typical time)
Affricates (/θ/ and /ð/), as late as 8 but most kids master them by 7
What does ASHA stand for
American Speech Langauge and Hearing Assosiation
First phonemes mastered (nasals and plosives)
2-3
Sensorinural Hearing Loss
inner ear damage (permanent) high fever, excessive caffeine, aspirin, noise
What does the audiogram configuration look like in a sensorineural hearing loss
hearing threshold for both air and bone conduction with minimal or no air bone gap
What is considered normal length of time for pregnancy
38-40 weeks
ASHA Code of ethics 1-4
Responsibility to your client, responsibility to yourself, responsibility to the public, responsibility to your collegues
First phonemes mastered (fricatives and glides)
4-5
Basal & Ceiling
Basal: assume everything above would be correct if presented
Ceiling: the point at which you believe everything below would be incorrect if presented
What does the audiogram configuration look like in a conductive hearing loss
flat or slightly sloping loss for air conduction thresholds with a significant air bone gap
List of 10 typical first words
Mama, dada, more, wawa, milk, no, stop, yes, hungry, ball, up