A&P
This structure is known as the "voice box."
What is the larynx?
The number of phonemes in the word “ship.”
What is 3 phonemes?
Most children say their first word around this age.
What is 12 months?
This neurodevelopmental disorder is characterized by difficulties with social communication and restricted interests.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This document outlines what SLPs are allowed to do professionally.
What is the scope of practice?
These are the three ossicles in the inner ear.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
These are the three parameters used to describe consonants.
What are place, manner, and voicing?
This term refers to a child’s ability to understand spoken language and comprehend its meaning.
What is receptive language?
Children with this disorder have difficulty producing speech sounds correctly.
What is a speech sound disorder?
This is the term for the process of collecting data to determine the presence of a communication disorder.
What is assessment or evaluation?
This cranial nerve is responsible for motor movement of most speech muscles.
What is the vagus nerve (CN X)?
/p/, /t/, and /k/ are all examples of this manner of articulation.
What are stops (or plosives)?
This is the typical age by which children are expected to be 100% intelligible to unfamiliar listeners.
What is 4 years old?
This disorder involves difficulty organizing speech, often resulting in inconsistent errors.
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?
EBP stands for this.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
The muscle primarily responsible for inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
Saying “tat” instead of “cat” is an example of this common phonological process.
What is fronting?
Children with language disorders often struggle with this area, which involves putting words together in the correct order.
What is syntax?
This type of aphasia is characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and poor comprehension.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
This federal law ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
This part of the brain is responsible for coordinating fine motor movements, including speech.
What is the cerebellum?
The IPA symbol /ʃ/ represents this sound.
What is the “sh” sound, as in “shoe”?
This theoretical linguist proposed the idea of a “language acquisition device.”
Who is Noam Chomsky?
A progressive disorder that affects memory, language, and cognition.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
This federal regulation protects the privacy of individuals' health information and impacts how SLPs handle client records.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?