EEX3120 Chapter 1: A Journey: From Student to Professional Flashcards
This specialist will evaluate and assist individuals with “CAPD” and select hearing aids and other amplification devices. What do the letters in the acrostic “CAPD” stand for?
Audiologist; Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Name the specialist who will measure hearing ability, identify, assess, manage, and prevent disorders of hearing and balance
Audiologist
In your own words define CAPD
A disorder that does not allow the ears and brain to coordinate therefore affecting the way the brain interprets sound
Name the specialist who provides services related to communicative disorders. He will identify, assess, and treat communication disorders in all modalities, both receptively and expressively
Speech Language Pathologist(SLP)
Name the specialist that provides services for the disorder “dysarthria” and may work with an individual who chooses to modify a regional or foreign dialect
Speech Language Pathologist(SLP)
What do the letters in the acrostic “ASHA” stand for
American Speech-Language Hearing Association
What do the letters in the acrostic “IFSP” and the abbreviation “EI” stand for
Individual Family Service Plan; Early Intervention
Name the efficacious practices that are an essential part of effective and ethical interventions
Evidence-based practice
In your own words, define “efficacy” as it relates to clinical outcomes
The probability of benefit to individuals in a defined population from a medical technology applied for a given medical problem under IDEAL conditions of use
In your own words, define “effectiveness” as it relates to clinical outcomes
The probability of benefit to individuals in a defined population from a medical technology applied for a given medical problem under AVERAGE conditions of use