The combination of language components (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics) in functional and socially appropriate ways.
What is Pragmatics?
100
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding.
What is Cognition?
100
The cortical area of the left frontal lobe of the brain responsible for detailing and coordinating.
What is Broca's Area?
100
The area consisting of several moving parts, working together to enhance sound wave pressure received by the ear drum in the ear.
What is Middle Ear?
100
Long strings of sound that children begin to produce at about 4 months of age.
What is Babbling?
200
The order and combination of words to form sentences.
What is Syntax?
200
The process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
What is Memory?
200
This is when a newborn infant will turn its head toward anything that strokes its cheek or mouth.
What is the Rooting Reflex?
200
A waxy substance produced by specific cells to protect the inner ear from debris and keep the ear canal moist.
What is Cerumen?
200
The presence of inappropriate pitch, quality, loudness, resonance and duration.
What is a Voice Disorder?
300
The structure of words and how words are constructed.
What is Morphology?
300
The part of the brain which controls cognition.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
300
The impairment of the ability to program, combine, or sequence the movement of speech.
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
300
The external ear canal covering that comes into contact with all sounds entering the ear canal.
What is the Tympanic Membrane (eardrum)?
300
The smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined together
What is Fluency?
400
The meanings of words and sentences.
What is Semantics?
400
A neurological disorder in which the death of brain cells causes memory loss and cognitive decline.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
400
This disorder affects small motor development which results in difficulties coordinating the muscle movements needed to pronounce words.
What is Dyspraxia?
400
Used to identify hearing loss or ear disease in infants, children, teens and adults.
What is a Hearing Screening?
400
The process used to describe the systematic simplifications observed in child speech.
What is the Phonological Process?
500
The sound system of a language and the rules about how sounds are combined.
What is Phonology?
500
The impairment of a person's ability to use and comprehend language, resulting in brain damage.
What is Aphasia?
500
This is the system that is involved whenever information about the muscle action movement is returned directly to the neural components that regulate the action.
What is The "Feedback" System?
500
Only being aware of vibrations rather than vocal or tonal patterns, causing for vision to be a primary source for socialization.
What is a Profound Hearing Loss?
500
Experiencing difficulty in the way sounds are formed and strung together, substituting one sound for another, and omitting a sound and or distorting sound.