NUCASLL Clinical Faculty
This faculty member is a former EI SLP and "lobes" helping people understand the relationship between the brain and language.
Who is Belma?
a medical procedure that involves creating an opening in the trachea (windpipe) to facilitate breathing
What is a tracheostomy?
The loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage
What is aphasia?
Before returning to school to be an SLP, this clinical faculty member was in advertising and was a Manhattan-based mom.
Who is Sarah.
FEES
What is Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing?
is a one-way valve that opens upon inspiration and closes completely upon expiration.
what is Passy Muir Speaking Valve?
Naming the object you're looking at
What is confrontation naming?
A flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue, which inverts during swallowing to cover the opening of the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
This faculty member has an MM and years of vocal performance experience.
Who is Nathan?
What is Speech Generating Device?
Instrumental swallow study completed at the patient's bedside using a flexible endoscope.
What is FEES?
having difficulty retrieving words
What is anomia?
Sippable liquid, pours quickly from a spoon, but slower than thin liquids.
What is Mildly thick liquids (IDDSI 2)?
This faculty member is originally from CA and now is a colleague of some of her previous supervisors.
Who is Karen?
CCC
What is Certificate of Clinical Competence?
This founding father may be responsible for creating the Grandfather Passage. As a stutterer, he focused the majority of his work on stuttering, but he developed and expanded many areas of speech.
Who is Charles Van Riper?
Abnormalities in the strength, speed, range, steadiness, tone, or accuracy of movements required for breathing, phonatory, resonatory, articulatory, or prosodic aspects of speech production
What is dysarthria?
This is an abbreviation for this Latin phrase "nil per os"
What is nothing per mouth or NPO?
This clinical faculty member has 4 degrees from NU.
Who is Debbie?
BSHM
What is Better Speech and Hearing Month?
An international authority on stuttering, he was a long term professor and clinician at NU. He led a summer 2-week professional workshop focusing on stuttering.
characterized by altered vocal quality, pitch, loudness, or vocal effort
What is Dysphonia?
Your patient had a brain stem infarct, they are at higher risk for having____.
What is silent aspiration?