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This measure tracks how long kids’ sentences are getting.
What is Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)?
This disorder affects the rhythm and flow of speech, often including repetitions and prolongations.
What is a fluency disorder (stuttering)?
The lobe in charge of vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Food going BELOW the vocal folds.
What is aspiration?
Trouble finding words.
What is anomia?
Before words, babies communicate using gestures, eye gaze, and sounds—this stage.
What is the prelinguistic period
These are the main behaviors seen in stuttering, such as “b-b-b-ball” or “ssssun.”
What are core disfluencies?
Understanding language happens here.
What is Wernicke’s area?
Food entering airway but NOT below vocal folds.
What is penetration?
Language loss due to brain damage.
What is aphasia?
These typically emerge around a child’s first birthday and mark the beginning of meaningful spoken language (like “mama,” “ball,” or “no”).
What are first words?
These behaviors develop in response to stuttering and may include eye blinking or facial tension.
What are secondary behaviors (secondary features)?
Speech production HQ.
What is Broca’s area?
Difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
Weak or uncoordinated speech muscles.
What is dysarthria?
When you and a child are both focused on the same toy.
What is joint attention?
This is the percentage of syllables or words that are stuttered in a speech sample.
What are disfluency rates?
Planning, decision-making, and movement control happen here.
What is the frontal lobe?
The 4 stages include oral prep, oral, pharyngeal, and this.
What is the esophageal phase?
Motor planning speech disorder in kids.
What is childhood apraxia of speech?
How quickly and appropriately a caregiver responds to a child.
What is caregiver responsiveness?
This disfluency involves a sound or syllable being repeated, such as “b-b-b-ball.”
What is a repetition?
Balance and coordination central.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the phase of swallowing where the bolus moves through the pharynx.
What is the pharyngeal phase?
A disorder caused by another condition.
What is a secondary disorder?