Speech
How many years of grad school do you need to be an SLP?
2
Name two devices that can help with hearing loss
Hearing aid and cochlear implant
What's one similarity and one difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
both specialize in the field of mental health
psychologists can't prescribe medications but psychiatrists can
True or false - being a linguistic means you are multilingual
False
What is the world's longest river?
Nile
What is the youngest a child can be for a speech-language pathologist to work with them?
0 days old! (as soon as they are born)
Name 2 audiology specialties.
Vestibular, educational, geriatric, pediatric, cochlear implants, tinnitus management
What is the most common psychological disorder in America?
Anxiety disorders
Name one area of linguistics
Literary Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
What year was Youtube founded?
2005
The number of months required for a Clinical Fellowship (when working full time).
What is 9 months?
What is the most common type of hearing loss?
Sensorineural hearing loss
How does an MRI work? What does it give doctors/medical professionals to look at?
uses magnetic fields and radio waves to take a picture (not a video) of inner anatomy
What is the word for someone who speaks more than a couple languages? (not multilingual, another word)
polyglot
What was the first Pixar movie?
Toy Story
What is the diagnosis for difficulty swallowing called? And how do you spell it?
Dysphagia
Who is the "father of audiology"?
Raymond Carhart
What is cognitive psychology?
Cognitive psychology studies our brain functions and mental processes specifically focusing on how people think and learn. It is a psychological science that aims to better understand how individuals acquire, perceive, process, and store information.
Most languages spoken today originate from this continent.
Asia (2,307 languages), followed closely by Africa (2,167)
What was the largest contiguous empire in history?
Mongol Empire
These are 6 of the 9 big areas of speech-language pathology.
What are speech (sound disorders), (receptive/expressive) language, fluency, voice, aural rehab, cognition, social language, and/or AAC?
Name two causes of (inner ear) hearing loss in infants
Infections passed from mother (e.g., measles, herpes); infections like meningitis; problems with structure of inner ear; tumors; genetic disorders; ototoxic chemicals or medications; CMV (cytomegalovirus); rubella
Where does the word psychology come from?
The term psychology comes from the Greek word "psyche," which means "spirit, soul," and "logia," which means "study, research."
How many languages are in use today?
7,170 languages
What's the human body's largest organ?
Skin