CSD Foundations
This professional identifies, assesses, evaluates, and treats speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders.
What is a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)?
Language is divided into these three broad categories.
What are form, content, and use?
This physiological system acts as the power source for speech.
What is the respiratory system?
According to the developmental chart, children typically produce their first spoken word around this age.
What is 12 months?
Approximately this many different phonemes occur in English.
What is 44?
Evidence-based practice combines these three major pillars.
What are external scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and client/family values?
Phonology, morphology, and syntax all fall under this category of language.
What is form?
: The vocal folds perform this movement when they open for breathing.
What is abduction?
In the word “climbing,” there are this many morphemes.
What are 2 morphemes — climb + -ing?
Consonants are classified according to these three major characteristics.
What are manner, place, and voicing?
To earn CCC-SLP certification, the slides identify a graduate degree, passing this national examination, and completing a Clinical Fellowship Year.
What is the Praxis exam?
A person has difficulty understanding or using spoken or written symbols. This would be classified as this general type of communication disorder.
What is a language disorder?
Put the four swallowing phases in order.
Oral preparatory → Oral transport → Pharyngeal → Esophageal?
A toddler hears a new word, uses contextual clues to infer what it means, and quickly begins using it appropriately. This process is called this.
What is fast mapping?
At approximately this age, infants begin reduplicated babbling.
What is 6–7 months?
An SLP chooses a treatment because research supports it, their clinical experience suggests it will work, and it fits the family's cultural values and preferences. This decision-making model is being used.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
A child has a large vocabulary and produces grammatically correct sentences but regularly says socially inappropriate things and doesn't understand when or how to communicate with others. This language component is most affected.
What is pragmatics?
This flexible, leaf-shaped cartilage plays essentially no role in speech production according to your slides but is vital for protecting the airway during swallowing.
: What is the epiglottis?
A child pretends that a hand towel is a blanket for a doll. According to the slides, this demonstrates this ability.
What is representation?
A child says “chai” instead of “chair.” This type of articulation error has occurred.
What is an omission?
Unlike an SLP, this CSD professional specializes in measuring hearing ability and identifying, assessing, managing, and preventing disorders involving hearing and balance.
What is an audiologist?
Match all five correctly:
Phonology → ?
Morphology → ?
Syntax → ?
Semantics → ?
Pragmatics → ?
Phonology → sound system
Morphology → word structure
Syntax → sentence arrangement/grammar
Semantics → meaning/vocabulary
Pragmatics → social use of language
When air moves rapidly through the narrow glottis, its velocity increases and pressure drops, helping pull the vocal folds back together. This phenomenon helps explain vocal-fold vibration.
What is the Bernoulli Effect?
Explain the difference between representation and symbolization.
Representation occurs when one thing stands for another, such as pretending a towel is a blanket. Symbolization involves using an arbitrary symbol, such as a word or sign, to represent something.
A child knows what they want to say and does not have neuromuscular weakness, but has difficulty planning and programming the movement sequences required for accurate speech. This disorder best fits the description.
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?