Hearing
You can tell if a sound is too loud if you have to raise your voice to be heard or you can't hear someone just 3 feet away.
How can you tell if a sound is too loud?
The causes of laryngitis are colds and other infections, talking loudly or yelling for long periods of time, and excessive coughing.
What causes laryngitis?
Articulation is the way a person makes speech sounds.
What is articulation?
A Language disorders is an impairments that makes it hard for someone to find the right words and form clear sentences when speaking.
What is a language disorder?
Fluency is the ability to speak smoothly at an understandable speed without much effort.
What is fluency?
People with hearing loss can use hearing aides or some have cochlear implants.
What can people with hearing loss use to help them hear better?
Teachers, singers, performers, clergy often abuse their voices while working.
Who often abuse their voices while working?
When are speech sounds develop?Speech sounds develop in early childhood but at different times. The earliest sounds are /p, b, m/.
When are speech sounds develop?
Concussions are a type of brain injury cause when the brain is shaken inside the head and hits the inside of the skull.
What are concussions?
Stuttering is common in preschoolers. About 75% of preschoolers who stutter will stop on their own.
Will little kids who stutter grow out of it?
You should set the loudness of your music to half volume.
How loud should your iPhone/iPad music be?
Vocal cords vibrate when you exhale (breathe out). That causes them to produce sound.
How do vocal cords vibrate?
What parts of your body help make speech sounds?The parts of the body that make speech sounds are your tongue, lips, teeth, and nose.
What parts of your body help make speech sounds?
Children learn language from birth. The first three years of life are the most important for language development.
When do children start learning to talk?
Stuttering can begin in childhood but also in adult years.
When does stuttering begin?
A rock concert can be as loud as an ambulance (120 decibels).
A rock concert can be as loud as an ambulance (120 decibels). How loud can a rock concert be?
You can protect your voice with adequate rest, drinking plenty of water, and speaking at a comfortable volume.
How can you protect your voice?
Boys have more speech sound errors than girls. Nearly twice as many boys are found to have speech errors.
Who has more speech sounds errors, boys or girls?
Reading is a great way to develop better language. We learn new words and information by reading.
What is a great way to develop language?
There is no known cause for stuttering but it appears to run in families.
What causes stuttering?
The smallest bones in your body are in your middle ear. They are called ossicles and they vibrate when you hear sounds.
Where are the smallest bones in your body?
Ear, nose, and throat doctors help people with voice problems.
Ear, nose, and throat doctors help people with voice problems. What kind of doctor treats voice problems?
People who can't speak clearly can use other communication systems such as picture or word boards, iPads with special apps, or special electronic devices.
How can people communicate if they can't speak clearly?
Social language skills are called pragmatics. This is using language to communicate with others.
What are social language skills called?
Boys are 4 times more likely to stutter than girls.
Who is more likely to stutter: boys or girls?