Speech Development
Language & Literacy
Articulation System
Artic & Phono Disorders
Potpourri
100

A child's first true word occurs around this age.

12 months

100

Developing knowledge of how books work: holding it right side up, turning the page, understanding reading goes left to right, pointing to pictures, etc.

Print Awareness

100

Consonants are classified by these 3 factors.

Place, Manner, and Voice

100

Speech disorder typically caused by muscle weakness or paralysis

Dysarthria

100

Term that describes the rhythm, rate, pitch, and intonation of speech 

Prosody

200

Strings of syllables with intonation that mirrors real speech

Jargon

200

What is the bare minimum number of words children should have in their expressive vocabulary at 24 months?

50 words (and two 2-word combos)

200

Name 3 functions of the tongue other than speech.

Chewing, Swallowing, Taste

200
Four common types of articulation errors

SODA

200

What term describes the time and process of giving birth?

Perinatal

300

Sequential repetition of the same CV syllable, for example: ba-ba-ba

Canonical (reduplicated) babbling

300

Pre-literacy skill that includes concepts of rhyming, sound-letter association, and syllable segmentation

Phonological Awareness

300

Another word for the soft palate

Velum

300

Type of speech disorder that presents as a pattern of sound errors across multiple phonemes.

Phonological Disorder

300

Term to describe a speech disorder that has a known, structural cause, such as a cleft palate.

Organic

400

Children are expected to be approximately 50% intelligible at this age.

24 months

400

The idea that objects exist even when not in sight

Object Permanence

400

Vowels are classified by these 4 factors.

Tongue height, tongue advancement, lip rounding, and muscle tension

400

Is apraxia of speech or dysarthria more likely to include hypernasality?

Dysarthria

400

Why might math or science skills be impacted by a language delay?

Learning new symbols (language), new words (semantics), word problems, etc. 

500

Sequential repetition of different CV syllables, for example, ba-ma-pa.

Variegated babbling

500

Lack of pointing, smiling, and eye contact in a six month old could be early red signs of what disorder?

Autism

500

Name 4 articulators

Tongue, teeth, hard palate, soft palate, jaw, lips, etc.

500

A motor planning disorder that disrupts the precision, sequencing, and coordination of speech movements.

Apraxia of speech

500

Medical term for "tongue-tie"

Ankyloglossia