SLP Fun Facts
Acronyms
AAC
Language
Swallowing Disorders
100

How many scopes of practice do SLPs have?

9!

100
SLP
What is Speech-Language Pathologist?
100

In this access method, the person makes a choice by listening for the desired item and then selects it

what is auditory scanning?

100

The ability to understand and comprehend language.

What is receptive language?

100
The term for breathing in a foreign object (sucking food into the airway).
What is aspiration?
200

What does PMV stand for? 


Bonus if you know what it does

Passy-Muir Valve

200
SGD

What is Speech Generating Device?

200

Communication boards/books, pictures, and real objects all compose this form of AAC.

what is low tech?

200

This commonly misused term refers to the meaning of language. 

What is semantics?

200

The vital protective mechanism that clears the airways of irritants, pathogens, and secretions through a coordinated neural and muscular response 

Cough reflex

300

How many bones are in your middle ear?

3

can you name them?

300
PECS
What is Picture Exchange Communication System?
300

True or false: An AAC device will prevent a child from ever learning to talk.

False

300

This is the ability to use language through speech, gestures, sign language, or AAC.

What is expressive language?

300
A flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the windpipe.
What is the epiglottis?
400

True or False: Being bilingual causes a language delay

FALSE!

400

IDDSI

International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative

400

True or false: Only users who are nonverbal should use AAC.

False

400

The characteristics of eye contact, joint attention, and turn-taking skills correspond to this type of language.

What is pragmatic language?

400
This is an abbreviation for this Latin phrase "nil per os"
What is nothing per mouth or NPO?
500

What does this say?:

/aɪ æm ˈɡoʊɪŋ tu ðə zu/

I am going to the zoo

500

CCC

What is Certificate of Clinical Competence?

500

The abbreviation AAC stands for this.

what is augmentative alternative communication

500

The rules of word order and word combinations in order to form phrases and sentences.

What is Syntax?

500
The medical term for the symptom (or symptoms) of difficulty in swallowing.
What is dysphagia?