SLPs and Auds
This professional identifies, treats and prevents communication and swallowing impairments.
What is a speech language pathologist?
The lower jaw that is hinged to the temporal bone and has sockets for the lower teeth
What is the mandible?
One speech sound is produced instead of another making it hard to understand what a child is saying.
What are substitution errors?
Some significant receptive and or expressive language impairments that cannot be attributed to any general or specific cause or cindition.
What is SLI?
A hearing loss that is generally treatable that develops due to damage of the outer or middle ear.
What is a conductive hearing loss?
This professional identifies, treats and prevents hearing disorders and balance disorders as well as fitting hearing aids.
What is an audiologist?
A large cartilage that closes over the glottis to seal the airway when swallowing.
What is the epiglottis?
The distinctive features that describe consonant sound productions.
What are place manner and voicing?
An aquired langauge disorder due to neurological damage that may affect any in put or output modalities including speaking, gesturing, writing, understanding or reading.
What is aphasia?
A hearing loss that is generally permanent and results from damge or malformation of the inner ear.
What is a sensorineural hearing loss?
A Master's degree or higher is needed.
What is the entry level education required to practice as a SLP?
The posterior 1/3 of the roof of the mouth that is muscular and separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity when raised.
What is the velum?
The degree of clarity with which an utterance is understood by the average listener.
What is intelligibility?
A lifelong complex behavioral syndrome that appears by age 3 with children having a markedly absent interest in social interactions and relationships, severely impaired communication skills and repetitive stereotyped movements, combined with restricted interests that are often obsessive or fixated.
What is ASD?
A basic unit of measure of the intensity of or loudness of a sound.
What is a Decibel or dB?
A doctoral degree is needed.
What is the level of education required to practice as an Audiologist?
Pyramid shaped cartilages that rotate to open and close the vocal fold and pivot back and forth to elongate the vocal folds.
What are the arytenoid cartilages?
Specially devised signs and symbols designed to represent the individual speech sounds of all languages.
What is the IPA?
These are phonology, morphology,syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
What are the five components of language?
A device that enables individuals with profound hearing loss to perceive sound through an array of elecrodes that are surgically implanted in the cochlea and deliver elctrical signmals to the VIIIth cranial nerve.
What is a cochlear implant?
The audiologist generally turns on and tunes the Cochlear implant and the SLP teaches the deaf child to listen, understand and discriminate sounds and to talk.
What are the roles of the Aud and SLP on a cochlear implant team
A fancy name for the back of the throat consisting of the part behind the nose, the part behind the mouth and the part behind the larynx.
What is the pharynx?
The production of oral language using phonemes for communication through the process of respiration, phonation, resonation and articulation.
What is speech?
A higher level language skill, it is the ability to communicate through written language, both reading and writing.
What is literacy?
Any battery powered electronic device, designed to amplify and deliver sound to the ear; consists of of a microphone, amplified and receiver.
What is a hearing aid?