Autism
What is "masking"?
A decline in voice function due to overuse with limited projection, reduced pitch and flexibility
What is vocal fatigue?
Corpus Callosum
What connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain?
Cerebellum
What coordinates complex muscle movements?
What is the ossicular chain or bones of the middle ear?
When an Autistic person imitates his/her conversational partner's body postures and facial expressions.
What is "mirroring"?
Loss of voice
Term for right hemisphere to the left side of the body and left hemisphere to the right side.
What is contralateral?
12 pairs of cranial nerves and spinal nerves are part of this, originating in the brainstem
What is the Lower Motor Neuron System?
Hearing loss caused by reduced movement of sound to the middle or inner ear or by anything that blocks the external ear canal
What is a conductive hearing loss?
An approach to Autism that views disabilities as a natural part of life.
What is a strengths-based approach to disabilities?
Small noncancerous growths on the vocal folds
What are vocal nodules?
Term for right hemisphere to the right side of the body and left hemisphere to the left side
What is ipsilateral?
Cranial nerves associated with tongue movement and sensation
What are the glossopharyngeal (IX), hypoglossal (XII), and facial nerves (VII)?
Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlear hair cells or the acoustic nerve which keeps the brain from receiving sound impulses.
What is a sensorineural hearing loss?
During play, when a child might pick up a block or a toy banana and pretend to answer it like a phone.
What is symbolic play?
Small, fluid-filled sacs on the vocal folds
What are polyps?
This part of the brain receives auditory information from auditory cortex and sends information stored in working memory to the motor cortex
What is Broca's area of the left frontal lobe?
Motor disorder characterized by muscle weakness, reduced tone, increased rigidity, etc
What is Dysarthria?
Otitis Media
What is a middle ear infection, common within the first two years of life. (Frequent occurrences impact development of a child’s speech and language loss)
DTT in ABA
What is Discrete Trial Training in Applied Behavioral Analysis?
EILO
What is Exercised-Induced-Laryngeal-Obstruction?
Where the brain processes linguistic information
What is Wernicke's Area or the left frontal lobe?
Motor speech disorders characterized by articulation and prosody errors, a reduced speech rate, as well as groping for sounds, challenges producing multisyllabic words
What is Apraxia?
Excessive noise exposure
What is a common and preventable cause of hearing loss in young and middle-aged adults?