Stuttering
This famous Greek attributed stuttering to a defect in the tongue.
Who is Aristotle?
This childhood conditions is characterized by language impairment in the absence of other complicating conditions (for example, sensory or cognitive problems).
What is developmental language disorder (DLD)?
This neuroprosthetic device replaces function of hair cells in the cochlea, if the auditory nerve is functioning.
What is a cochlear implant?
When eating or drinking, this is the technical name for what you swallow.
What is a bolus?
This professor scared people on the streets of Baltimore by conducting research in an unmarked white van.
Who is Prof. Erin Meier?
Eye blinking or facial tension associated with a stutter are considered this type of behavior.
What is secondary?
The second most common neurodegenerative disease, this condition is often (but not always) associated with language difficulty.
What is frontotemporal degeneration?
The ordered arrangement of hair cells from high to low along the basilar membrane.
What is tonotopy?
These bilateral growths on the vocal folds can result in hoarseness, breathiness, and soreness, and often disappear following vocal rest.
What are vocal nodules?
This professor demonstrated an app for recording and classifying sounds made by nonverbal communicators.
Who is Prof. Kristy Johnson?
People who stutter are more prone to these two mental health conditions than those who do not.
What are anxiety and depression?
Damage to this part of the brain often results in speech that is effortful and nonfluent.
What is the left inferior frontal gyrus?
The three bones of the inner ear are the incus, malleus, and this stirrup-shaped bone.
What is the stapes?
In 1865 he published a treatise on the localization of language in the brain.
Who is Broca?
This professor helps lead summer camps for people with language challenges, including Camp Jabberwocky.
Who is Prof. Kim Ho?
Talking to a child about "bumpy" or "smooth" speech is an example of this type of treatment for stuttering.
What is direct?
Difficulty with non-literal language (such as sarcasm, jokes, and idioms) is associated with damage to this region of the brain.
What is the right hemisphere?
Pressure in the middle ear can be equalized in part due to this "tubular" part of the body.
What is the Eustachian tube?
This motor speech disorder is associated with slow rate, speech sound errors, and increased difficulty producing speech, when the speech muscles themselves are not impaired.
What is apraxia of speech?
This professor was involved in leading a startup called VocalID, focused on synthesizing voices for people with voice difficulty.
Who is Prof. Rupal Patel?
With little formal training in speech language pathology, this man helped King George VI manage his stutter.
Who is Lionel Logue?
In his TEDx talk, Dr. Julius Fridriksson at the University of South Carolina showed how a person with nonfluent aphasia dramatically increased their fluency using this easy technique.
What is speech entrainment?
When speech is noisy or difficult to understand, listeners may rely on this part of the brain to compensate.
What is the frontal lobe?
As explained by Dr. Peelle, increasing this behavior is associated with a reduction of risk for both hearing loss and trouble understanding speech in noise.
What is moderate to vigorous physical activity?
This behavior, studied by Prof. Emily Zimmerman, is an early marker for motor development in infants.
What is non-nutritive suck?