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Location of the primary motor cortex.
What is the precentral gyrus
Neurons that transmit information away from the brain.
Efferent neurons.
A disfluent event characterized by the following repetitions: "I l-l-l-like peanut butter"
What is part-word repetition.
The primary muscle of the lips.
What is the orbicularis oris.
A phonological process in which a child says gʌk/dʌk and koʊ/toʊ.
What is backing.
The perception of two distinct simultaneous pitches during phonation ("double voice").
What is diplophonia.
Structure that regulates body posture, equilibrium, and coordinated fine-motor movements.
What is the cerebellum
This is a measure of validity of the accuracy with which a test predicts future performance on a related task.
What is predictive or criterion validity.
A measure of variability denoting the extent to which scores deviate from the mean or average.
Technique in which someone describes and comments on what the child is doing or focused on. For example, “You are making the car go fast” or “That pig is pink”.
What is parallel talk
Apraxia of speech is often associated with lesions in what area of the brain?
What is Broca's area.
Fibers that connect the cerebral hemispheres.
What are commissural fibers.
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution.
What is the range.
A type of Cerebral Palsy in which a child who shows slow, writhing, involuntary movements.
What is Ataxic Cerebral Palsy.
This dysfunction often causes hearing problems in infants with cleft palate.
What is Eustachian tube dysfunction.
A radiographic procedure that provides a direct, dynamic view of oral, pharyngeal, and upper esophageal function.
What is a Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS).
The cranial nerve primarily responsible for innervating the larynx.
What is Cranial Nerve X.
An experiment design involving one or a few subjects.
Single-subject design.
The muscle that exerts the pull that allows the eustachian tube to open during yawning and swallowing.
What is the tensor palatini.
A child is referred to you for an assessment of his pragmatic skills. The chief complaint of adults and children with whom he interacts with is that he frequently gives commands and sounds rude and bossy. His classroom teacher says she is “fed up with his bossiness” and peers do not include him in their games. His father tells you that the boy frequently says things like “take me to Pizza Palace” or “Get me the Spiderman 2 DVD.” The father would like intervention to help his son say things like “I wonder if we could get a Spiderman 2 DVD at the store?” instead of giving orders. This concept will need to be addressed in your therapy with him.
What are indirect requests.
A client with the following symptoms would most likely be diagnosed with what disorder: general awareness of his automatic speech, more difficulty with consonants than vowels, intonation and fluency problems, and trial-and-error groping and struggling associated with speech attempts.
What is Apraxia of Speech.
A speech sound disorder characterized by muscle weakness or paralysis.
What is dysarthria.
In a periodic complex sound, these are tones that occur over the fundamental frequency and can be characterized as whole-number multiples of the fundamental frequency.
What are harmonics.
In infants and children with cleft palates, eustachian tube dysfunction is probably mostly related to deficits in which muscle?
What is the tensor veli palatini muscle
Phonological process approach in which phonemes in pairs of words are contrasted by one or just a few features.
Minimal Pairs Approach