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Glossary Goodness
100
If sound cannot be transmitted through the outer and middle ear to the inner ear, this is known as:
What is conductive hearing loss?
100
What is the red thing called?
What is the cerebellum?
100
The official medical term for an ENT.
What is an otolaryngologist?
100
This structural disorder occurs when the palate fails to fuse during fetal development.
What is cleft palate?
100
The study of speech sounds is called what?
What is phonetics?
200
Our hair cells respond to noise. They will repair themselves if they get damaged. However, if we damage our hair cells with too much noise, they can stay damaged. This is known as:
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
200
What is the medical term for the branches in the lungs?
What are the bronchi?
200
A patient comes into your clinic following a stroke. His family notices he’s able to produce normal sounding speech, but it’s nonsensical words or “word salad.” What disorder does this patient have?
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
200
Explain why a hearing test is the first step in assessing a speech sound disorder in a child.
Because if the child cannot hear sounds clearly, they cannot learn to articulate them correctly.
200
A ______ disorder is present at birth.
What is congenital?
300
Noise induced hearing loss will often appear as a dip at 4000 Hz in an audiogram. This dip is known as a __________.
What is a noise notch?
300
What is the yellow thing called?
Cricoid cartilage
300
A _______ disorder affects an individual’s knowledge of symbols and how to combine them.
What is a language disorder?
300
This disorder occurs when a person’s articulator movements are correct, but they consistently produce the wrong sounds in predictable patterns.
What is a phonological disorder?
300
The insulating layer that wraps around nerves to enable a faster synapse is called what?
What is the myelin sheath?
400
Certain chemotherapy agents and antibiotics can cause hearing loss. These substances are known as:
What are ototoxic medications?
400
What is the yellow part of the nerve called?
What is the axon?
400
This anatomical feature affects the fundamental frequency of an individual’s voice.
What is the length of the vocal folds?
400
Which motor speech disorder involves no muscular weakness but difficulty planning how to move the articulators?
What is apraxia of speech?
400
This part of the cochlear implant is what actually coils inside the cochlea.
What is the electrode array?
500
If a fetus is exposed to certain chemicals, toxins, diseases, etc., during pregnancy, this can interfere with development. These threats are known as:
What are teratogens?
500
Which lobe contains Broca’s area and what is its function?
What is the frontal lobe; language expression
500
This term refers to exhalation happening naturally by the inhalation muscles of our diaphragm relaxing.
What is passive exhalation?
500
A child comes into your clinic with this kind of speech pattern:
Ship → Tip
Fight → Tight
Sheet → Peet
What kind of phonological process is this child demonstrating?
What is stopping?
500
A child comes into your clinic producing this kind of speech error:
Dig → Did
Bath → Bab
Pet → Pep
What type of disorder is this called?
What is assimilation?