NUCASLL Clinical Faculty
Acronyms
Miscellaneous
Speech/Language
Swallowing Disorders
100

This faculty member is a former EI SLP and "lobes" helping people understand the relationship between the brain and language.

Who is Belma?

100
SLP
What is Speech-Language Pathologist?
100

a medical procedure that involves creating an opening in the trachea (windpipe) to facilitate breathing

What is a tracheostomy?

100

The loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage

What is aphasia?

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

Before returning to school to be an SLP, this clinical faculty member was in advertising and was a Manhattan-based mom.

Who is Sarah.

200

FEES

What is Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing?

200

is a one-way valve that opens upon inspiration and closes completely upon expiration. 

what is Passy Muir Speaking Valve?

200

Naming the object you're looking at

What is confrontation naming?

200

A flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue, which inverts during swallowing to cover the opening of the trachea.

What is the epiglottis?

300

This faculty member has an MM and years of vocal performance experience.

Who is Nathan?

300
SGD

What is Speech Generating Device?

300

Instrumental swallow study completed at the patient's bedside using a flexible endoscope.

What is FEES?

300

having difficulty retrieving words

What is anomia?

300

Sippable liquid, pours quickly from a spoon, but slower than thin liquids.

What is Mildly thick liquids (IDDSI 2)?

400

This faculty member is originally from CA and now is a colleague of some of her previous supervisors. 

Who is Karen?

400

CCC

What is Certificate of Clinical Competence?

400

This founding father may be responsible for creating the Grandfather Passage. As a stutterer, he focused the majority of his work on stuttering, but he developed and expanded many areas of speech. 

Who is Charles Van Riper?

400

Abnormalities in the strength, speed, range, steadiness, tone, or accuracy of movements required for breathing, phonatory, resonatory, articulatory, or prosodic aspects of speech production

What is dysarthria?

400

This is an abbreviation for this Latin phrase "nil per os"

What is nothing per mouth or NPO?

500

This clinical faculty member has 4 degrees from NU. 

Who is Debbie?

500

BSHM

What is Better Speech and Hearing Month?

500

An international authority on stuttering, he was a long term professor and clinician at NU. He led a summer 2-week professional workshop focusing on stuttering.

Who is Hugo Gregory?
500

characterized by altered vocal quality, pitch, loudness, or vocal effort

What is Dysphonia?

500

Your patient had a brain stem infarct, they are at higher risk for having____.

What is silent aspiration?