Anatomy
Although the primary function of the respiratory system is to sustain life, it also serves as what?
page 47
Around this age, an child usually speaks their first words.
What is a 1 year old, or a 12 month old? page 66-67
The number of different phonemes that make up the sounds of the English language.
What is 43? page 110
A handheld instrument used to visually inspect the external auditory canal and tympanic membrane.
What is an otoscope?
What are bilabials?
The principle muscle of inspiration
What is the diaphragm? page 48
A calculation (informal assessment) that describes a child's language development measured in morphemes.
What is Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)? page 71
This pattern reduces the CVC structure to more familiar (easier) CV structure.
What is final consonant deletion? page 116
Sounds that contain energy only at a single frequency.
What is pure tone?
The sounds made with a complete stoppage of air flow.
What are stops?
What is the tongue? page 55
A nonstandardized assessment approach that can take the form of test-teach-test to determine a child's ability to learn.
What is dynamic assessment? page 98
The placement for sounds made with the bottom lip and the upper teeth.
What is labiodental? page 111
A device used to deliver pure tone and speech stimuli during audiometric testing.
What is an audiometer?
The sounds made with the tongue between the teeth.
What are interdentals or linguadentals?
In vocal fold adduction, the vocal folds are...?
What is moving together? page 53
Words that are learned quickly by preschool children without complete comprehension.
What is fast mapping? page 70
The ability to analyze, think about, and manipulate speech sounds to make judgments about the correctness of one's own speech and langauge.
A measure of magnitude of sound, generally expressed in decibels.
What is intensity?
The sounds made with no vocal cord vibration.
What are voiceless sounds?
The glottis belongs to this system.
What is the laryngeal system? page 52
The term used to describe a child with a disorder primarily characterized by issues with language.
What is Specific Language Impairment (SLI) or Primary Language Impairment (PLI)? page 75
A neurological speech sound disorder that affects the child's ability to plan and program the movement sequences necessary for accurate speech production.
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech? page 124
The lowest (quietest) intensity level, measured in decibels, at which a person can just barely detect a given stimulus approximately 50% of the time.
What is threshold?
The sounds made with the tongue tip to the gum ridge behind the teeth.