The field, The Professionals, and the Clients
specialists who measure hearing ability and identify, assess, and manage disorders of hearing or balance.
Audiologist
An injury that has harmed a person’s brain and is impacting their language skills.
Traumatic Brain injury (TBI)
a speech sound
Phoneme
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
a branch of science dedicated to the study of hearing, balance and associated disorders.
audiology
Someone who assesses, treats and helps prevent different communicative “disorders.”
Speech-Language Pathologist.
language that does not literally mean what it says. It often uses metaphors and similes.
Figurative Language
phonemes are represented using symbols from this alphabet. It contains every spoken sound in every language. Sometimes it’s symbol is the same as the English alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet
When a group of people take over land that already has people living on it, impose their rules, values, laws and customs onto the land
Colonization
not just the ear lobe, it also includes the ear canal and the ear drum(tympanic membrane)
outer ear
This affects your ability to swallow food
Dysphagia
a calculation of the average number of *morphemes a person uses in a phrase when they speak.
Mean Length of Utterance(MLU
a language in which words can differ in tones (like pitches in music) in addition to consonants and vowels.
Tonal Languages.
This person coined the Term Intersectionality.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
charts that show at which volumes a person can hear different tones
Audiograms
Communication systems that don’t center around oral language
Augmentative/ Alternative Communication Systems(AAC)/devices
your ability to be organized, plan, pay attention,manage time, start tasks, remember instructions and juggle different tasks.
Executive Functioning Skills
One of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Xhosa language
systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects.
intersectionality
the belief that the ability to hear makes a person better than someone who doesn’t hear.
Audism
Making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.
ASHAS Vision Statement.
An impairment that only affects spoken and written language.
Specific Language Impairment
whether or not vocalization takes place when pronouncing a sound
Vocalization
the practice of including and involving people from a broad range of different social and ethnic backgrounds, as well as people with differing abilities(e.g. disabled vs. able-bodied), genders sexual orientations, ages etc.
Diversity
behind the eardrum ,it includes the Eustachian tube and three small bones
Middle ear