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Auditory Processing Testing Lingo
100
Herschel's gyrus, Angular gyrus, Broca's area
What are three left hemisphere structures that are important in language processing?
100
Majority are male(75%), difficulty listening in presence of background noise and locating sounds, difficulty following oral directions, history of otis media
What are characteristics of Central Auditory Processing Problems?
100
The process that adds a fatty coating to the brain's axons, increasing the efficiency in neural connection
What is myelination?
100
The ability to identify the first syllable in a word
What is auditory analysis?
100
This type of testing does NOT try to evaluate "real life" auditory conditions
What is CAP testing?
200
The most efficient auditory pathways
What are contralateral pathways?
200
A child with a basic vocabulary deficit has this
What is a language acquisition problem?
200
Strategies such as shortening assignments and limiting timed activities to allow students to focus on accuracy rather than efficiency, supplementing auditory information with visual materials, and refreshing stimuli with repetition, rephrasing and expansion clarifications
What are teacher compensatory strategies?
200
The ability to fill in missing or distorted auditory information
What is auditory closure?
200
Two adjunct skills that can have a significant impact on language processing assessment results
What are auditory memory and word retrieval?
300
Linguistic information is processed here, gestalt information is processed here
What are the left and right hemispheres -respectively?
300
One of the most frequently reported characteristics in language processing disorders
What is a word retrieval problem?
300
The intelligence identified by Dr.Howard Gardner that includes the ability to distinguish among, classify, and use features of the environment
What is Naturalist?
300
Effective language processing exercises use this type of skills rather than incorporating many together
What are discrete skills in a hierarchical manner?
300
Normal hearing acuity, intelligence in the functional range,language comprehension at least 4-5 year old level
What are the prerequisites for CAP and Functional Auditory Skills?
400
Planning and managing an individual's behavior occurs n this functional unit of the brain
What is the the third functional unit?
400
Manifesting slow acquisition of vocabulary and concepts, ineffective short term memory, delayed articulation/phonological development, and significant word retrieval problems in preschool
What are preschool precursors for language processing problems?
400
An effective model for making therapy decisions for language processing difficulties based on a hierarchical model of neurological development that guides expectations in a logical order of increasing cognitive complexity
What is the Processing Continuum Model?
400
The computer program comprised of a series of exercises to modify the rate of acoustic stimuli to gradually strengthen neural pathways involved in sound recognition
What is Fast ForWord?
400
Assessing the neurological integrity of the brainstem and initial cortical structures for intact transmission of acoustic stimuli
What is the purpose of CAP testing?
500
This occurs past Herschel's gyrus, when an individual begins to use language knowledge to attach meaning to signals
What is language processing?
500
Difficulty with this type of competing auditory message suggests a temporal lobe deficit
What is contralateral?
500
Use of this entire functional unit is necessary at the beginning of language processing therapy gradually moving toward auditory input only
What is the second functional unit?
500
The lowest floor on the language processing hierarchy of skills
What is labeling?
500
The audiological assessment procedures that include the test of filtered speech, compressed speech, pitch patterns, and ipsilateral competing signals
What are monotic tests (one ear tested at a time)?
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