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What's wrong?
Swallowing
Body Parts
POTPOURRI
100
An acqiured disorder that results from damage to the parts of the brain that contain language.
What is APHASIA?
100
Coughing during or after meals, runny nose, gurgled vocal quality, dehydration, loss of weight.
What are signs and symptoms of ASPIRATION?
100
The small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue.
What is the UVULA?
100
Treatment of voice, language, swallowing, cognition, speech & memory disorders.
What is the scope of practice for Speech Therapists in home health?
200
Infection of the lungs due to aspiration (the sucking in of food particles or fluids into the lungs).
What is ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA?
200
A swallowing disorder; difficulty in swallowing or the inability to swallow; condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful.
What is DYSPHAGIA?
200

Where is the only free floating bone in our bodies located?

The throat (hyoid bone)

200
The left side of the brain.
What is the side of the brain that controls language?
300
Most common type of dementia; accounts for an estimated 60 to 80 percent of cases.
What is ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE?
300

Which of the following is a potential sign of aspiration:

slurring speech

coughing

hearing loss

coughing during PO intake

300
The strongest muscle in your body, and most flexible.
What is the TONGUE?
300
26% of seniors over the age of 65 do not have these.
What are TEETH?
400
ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Friedreich's Ataxia & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
What are degenerative diseases that affect speech and swallowing?
400
The only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
What is the HYOID?
400
The only organ of the body that can float.
What are the LUNGS?
400

Which increases risk of developing pneumonia:

a) frailty

b) aspiration

c) poor oral health

d) all of the above


All of the above