Chapter 6
The use of visual modes of communication, specifically reading and writing.
What is literacy?
What is a neuron?
The type of attention that lets you focus on important information and ignore distracting information.
What is selective attention?
The most common form of stuttering that begins in the preschool years.
What is developmental stuttering?
The structure that separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
What is the velum?
The ability to manipulate sounds.
What is decoding?
The part of the brain (in the temporal lobe) that processes incoming linguistic information.
What is Wernicke's area?
The umbrella term for the skills that allow you to complete goal directed behavior.
What are executive functions?
The theory of stuttering that proposes that there is an actual physical cause of stuttering.
What is the organic theory of stuttering?
The perceptual quality in which pitch lacks variability.
What is monopitch?
Segmenting a word and blending the sounds together to form a word.
What is phonemic awareness?
Substituting a related word for the target word.
What is a semantic paraphasia?
The aspect of language that deals with conveying emotion and pragmatic information in speech.
What is prosody?
The type of stutter present in "I I I go to the store."
What is a repetition?
What is 60 db?
An interactive method for reading picture books.
What is dialogic reading?
The aphasia that has non-fluent and agrammatic language production.
What is Broca's aphasia?
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The type of disfluency present in "pppppplease come here."
What is a prolongation?
Benign, callous-like bumps on the vocal folds (usually bilateral).
What are vocal nodules?
The ability to relate the content you read to other knowledge through reasoning, inferring, comparing/contrasting, and integrating ideas.
What is dynamic literacy (or comprehension)?
The aphasia that has difficulty only with word finding.
What is anomic aphasia?
The diagnosis associated with a breakdown in conceptual knowledge.
What is the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia?
Facial grimacing or eye blinking is an example.
What is a secondary behavior?
An example of a functional voice disorder?
What is muscle tension dysphonia?