Anatomy and Physiology
Commonly referred to as the "voice box"
What is the larynx?
ASHA.
What is the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association?
Motor-planning disorder for speech
What is Apraxia of speech?
What are loud noises, ear infections, ear disease, damage by foreign object, ototoxic medications, and presbycusis?
The measurement of hearing levels on an audiogram.
What are decibels?
What are the two important functions of the larynx?
What is protection of the airway and production of sound for speech?
URISSLHA
What is URI Student Speech Language Hearing Association?
Causes include strokes, traumatic brain injuries, and degenerative brain diseases
What is Aphasia?
Three bones of the middle ear.
What are the incus, stapes, and malleus?
What do the three C’s stand for in CCC-SLP?
What is the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology?
Movement which brings the vocal folds together for speech.
What is adduction of the vocal folds?
RISHA
What is Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Association?
Two disorders that affect fluency of speech.
What are stuttering and cluttering?
Professionals that can provide aural rehabilitation services.
What are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and teachers for deaf or hard of hearing?
Surgically implanted hearing device
What is a cochlear implant?
A ring-shaped cartilage of the lower larynx. It is attached to the top of trachea.
What is the cricoid cartilage?
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Name for swallowing disorder
What is dysphagia?
Types of hearing loss
What are sensorineural, conductive and mixed hearing loss?
Hypoglossal nerve
What is CN XII?
Location in the brain of Broca's area.
What is the frontal lobe?
CAS
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
Deficits in the neural processing of auditory information in the CANS
What is Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)?
Degrees of hearing loss
What is Normal, Mild, Moderate, Moderately Severe, Severe, Profound?
Conduction of sound to the inner ear primarily through the bones of the skull
What is bone conduction?