Adult Language Disorders
The hemisphere of the brain language is housed in.
What is the left hemisphere?
The complete name for CAS.
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
The term for how spoken language can be divided into its components.
What is phonological awareness?
The area of language concerned with a child's understanding or comprehension.
What is receptive language?
Stretching out a sound in a word is this type of disfluency.
What is a prolongation?
This occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain either bursts, ruptures or is blocked by a clot.
What is a stroke?
This motor execution disorder that inhibits the physiology and movement abilities of muscles which causes weak muscles, imprecise consonants, and difficulty with respiration during speech production
What is dysarthria?
The type of memory that is used to hold onto information briefly so that a task can be performed.
What is working memory?
This is used to measure sentence length.
What is mean length utterance?
Eye blinks, facial grimacing, and changes in pitch or loudness are considered to be _______________ behaviors of stuttering.
What are secondary?
A language impairment that affects expressive and/or receptive language including the ability to read and write that occurs after the language system has been learned/acquired.
What is aphasia?
The motor speech disorder in which "automatic” speech (e.g., counting) is easier to produce than “on demand speech”.
What is apraxia?
The term for sound-letter correlation.
What is phonics?
The system of rules governing the meaning of words and word combinations.
What is semantics?
The soft tissue that is the main vibratory component of the voice box.
What are the vocal folds?
A disturbance in the ability to name.
What is anomia?
Examples are deletion of final consonants, fronting of velars, weak syllable deletion, and stopping of continuants.
What are phonological processes?
The books Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish and Other and Terrifically Tantalizing Tongue Twisters are examples of this literary term.
What is alliteration?
Rules that govern word order and sentence structure.
What is syntax?
This changes as a person ages, especially between birth and puberty.
What is pitch?
These four areas that are typically assessed in aphasia.
What are repetition, naming, fluency, and comprehension?
A set of symbols used to describe sounds of a spoken language.
What is the international phonetic alphabet?
Word-level reading and oral language comprehension are needed to develop this skill.
What is reading comprehension?
The smallest grammatical unit of meaning.
What is a morpheme?
This opens during breathing and closes during swallowing and sound production.
What is the glottis?