Speech Sound Disorders
The stage of speech production in which muscles are actually moved to produce speech.
What is motor execution?
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?
A common phonological process in which consonant clusters are reduced to just one consonant.
What is cluster reduction?
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?
A fluency disorder characterized by rapid and irregular rate of speech.
What is cluttering?
The perceptual quality in which pitch lacks variability.
What is monopitch?
The most common type of error in individuals with cleft palate.
What are compensatory errors?
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?
An assessment method that involves visual observation of the vocal folds.
What is videostroboscopy?
A disorder in which the velopharyngeal port does not close properly, leading to excess nasal airflow.
What is velopharyngeal dysfunction?
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 "pleeeeease come here."
What is a prolongation?
Benign, callous-like bumps on the vocal folds (usually bilateral).
What are vocal nodules?
A speech error in which an "s" sound is produced like a "th".
What is a frontal lisp?
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?
Includes smoking cessation, avoiding yelling, and staying hydrated.
What is vocal hygiene?