Pediatric Language Disorders
This is the term for when a child is developing language, but at a slower rate/pace than their same-aged peers
What is a language delay?
In this type of articulation error, the individual subsitutes one phoneme for another during speech production.
What is a substitution? (remember SODA!)
The cochlea and semicircular canals comprise the
A cleft palate can impact what structures within the oral cavity?
What are the hard and/or soft palate?
The most common type of stroke due to a blockage in the aterial wall is a
Occlusive/ischemic CVA
Most current research suggests that these are the primary causes of autism
What are genetics, maternal substance abuse
Inconsistent errors, inappropriate prosidy, and articulatory groping are all characteristics of...
What is Apraxia of Speech?
The three parts of the ossicular chain are the....
Malleus, incus, stapes
This is the term for observable head/body movements, blinking, use of fillers during moments of stuttering.
What are second, or overt stuttering behaviors?
A disruption in normal brain functioning due to an external force that can cause temporary or permanent impairment is called a...
What is a traumatic brain injury?
In this approach, the SLP follows the child's lead during therapy and develops communication opportunities with the items the client interacts with in the environment.
What is naturalistic/child-led therapy?
A speech sound disorder focused on errored patterns in speech beyond what is considered typical is called a ...
What is a phonological disorder?
This is the visual representation of hearing loss that shows hearing loss at different pitches and volumes
What is an audiogram?
An integral part of therapy for fluency disorders should focus on...
Client's perspectives, values, reactions, and thoughts regarding their dysfluency.
Non-fluent aphasia typically impacts which brain area?
Frontal lobe, Broca's area
This assessment measure assesses language in a more natural context; can help determine how and why children are communicating within their environment.
What is a language sample?
Vowels are classified by these two characteristics
What are tongue and jaw movement?
This device amplifies sound waves from the environment that are dampened or missed due to a hearing loss
What are hearing aids?
Consonants such as _________, ______ are often impacted by clients with a cleft lip or palate due to velopharyngeal insufficiency.
Typically, therapy or treatment for an acquired language disorder is one of these two categories
What are restorative or compensatory?
Deficits in cognitive functioning and adaptive skills are crtieria for this developmental disorder
What is an intellectual disability?
Stops, glides, plosives, and fricatives are all considered..
What are manners of phoneme production?
This is the lowest intensity at which a person can detect a sound during an audiological exam.
What is a threshold?
What is the mirror test?
This is the term for difficulty with facial recognition, common in right hemisphere disorders
What is proposagnosia?