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Neuro-related
Language& Literacy
Hearing
100
Spina bifida and cerebral palsy, for example.
What are some causes of pediatric dysphagia?
100
Fingerspelling, gesturing, for example.
What is no-tech or low-tech AAC?
100
Non-verbal abilities, mathematics and music are processed in this.
What is the right hemisphere?
100
This is a person's personal receptive (and expressive) vocabulary.
What is a lexicon?
100
The site of lesion for this disorder is either the outer ear, the middle ear, or both.
What is a conductive hearing loss?
200
One of the main complications of dysphagia that can lead to infection and death.
What is aspiration pneumonia?
200
This acquired disorder may have significant deficits in receptive and expressive language.
What is mixed aphasia?
200
Smoking, alcohol use, poor diet, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, previous strokes.
What are some factors that increase risk for stroke?
200
Children with this disorder have poor visual word recognition.
What is dyslexia?
200
These bones are fully formed by 5 months gestational age.
What are the malleus, incus and stapes (ossicles)?
300
Oral preparatory, oral, pharyngeal and esophageal.
What are the four phases of swallowing?
300
A switch that plays a recording when pressed, for example.
What is a low-tech AAC solution (speech production)?
300
This type of language disorder is characterized by the patient's ability to produce full sentences and, in some cases, a lack of comprehension skills.
What are fluent aphasias (e.g., Wernicke's)?
300
The knowledge that spoken words are comprised of individual sounds and the ability to manipulate these sounds.
What is phonological awareness?
300
This level of hearing loss puts a child into the category of consideration for a cochlear implant.
What is severe to profound hearing loss?
400
This observation is made in a bedside evaluation for swallowing.
What is a patient's reaction to food and drink?
400
A legal contract used with school-aged children, between parents and teachers, for children with disabilities.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Plan)?
400
A patient with this will have the same visual half-field in both eyes.
What is homonymous hemianopsia?
400
This impairment may affect vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatics, but intellectual ability is normal.
What is a specific language impairment?
400
These two aspects of audition are significantly affected by sensorineural hearing loss.
What are audibility and intelligibility?
500
During a swallowing evaluation, these voice differences suggest a problem.
What is a breathy or hoarse voice quality, and gurgling sound when the patient speaks?
500
These disorders cause significant brain damage but are not necessarily termed “aphasia.”
What are TBI, neurological degeneration and infection?
500
Language abilities improve a short period of time after a stroke, as a result of this.
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
The children with this type of speech disorder are at higher risk for dyslexia and hyperlexia.
What is an articulation disorder?
500
A communication system involving the use of any and all modalities to communicate, including speech, speechreading, and sign language.
What is Total Communication?