Exam 1 Flashcards
The exchange of meaning between a sender and receiver
Communication
A code, which includes words and sentences used to convey ideas and feelings (spoken language, written language, sign language)
Language
Programmed movements of the oral cavity to form a sequence of sound that represents words, phrases, and sentences. How you form sound
Speech
Describes how a child is presented or born with a disorder
Congenital disorder
Describes how a child acquired a disorder after birth.
Acquired disorder
Getting into a car accident you may acquire a traumatic brain injury
Acquired disorder
Getting meningitis as a young child, resulting in becoming deaf
Acquired disorder
A loss or abnormality of a physiological, physchological or anatomic structure or function
Impairment
Loss of hearing-when a person may not be able to hear well is an example of
Impairment
A reduced incompetence in meeting daily living needs
disability
If an impairment is so big, they cant function daily
disability
a disorder that interferes with the exchange of meaning.
communication disorder
when a person has different language rules from other people
communication difference
a respectful way to address a person
first person language
you address the person first, then the disorder
first person language
“A girl with dyslexia” instead of “a dyslexic girl”
first person language
disorders with a physical cause. Example patients with stroke or cleft palate
Organic Disorders
disorders with no physical cause or reason. Example patients with stutter but cant identify why they are stuttering, it is considered a
Functional Disorders
disorders that appear as a person develops or grows up, like dyslexia.
Developmental Disorders
disorders that are acquired after birth due to something traumatic
Acquired Disorders
children with difficulty with motor production of speech sounds
Speech Sound Disorders (SSD)
usually involves interruptions in the flow of speaking that involves smoothness, rate and effort. example stuttering
Fluency Disorders
when a individual uses inappropriate voice quality pitch or loudness compared to others of his own age, gender, cultural background, or geographic location
Voice Disorders
abnormality in the vocal fold vibration.
Phonatory disorders
If you are screaming for a long period of time, your vocal fold can get inflamed or swollen and will not close well, resulting in no voice. Seen lots of times with signers
Phonatory disorders
problems in the back between the nose and the mouth
Resonance disorders
Problems with your voice as a result of physiological stress, like yelling
Psychogenic voice disorder
when people have trouble using words.
language Disorders
two types of language disorders:
Receptive and expressive
results from a pathological deterioration of the brain that progresses and worsens over time.
Dementia
A deficiency in the ability to detect sound
Hearing Disorders
due to the fluid in the middle ear, typically can be fixed with antibiotic medicine
Conductive Hearing Loss
disfunction of the cochlear in the ear, typically will need hearing aids
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
Mixed Hearing Loss
does labs, conduct research, but does not work with clients-ONLY DOES RESEARCH
Speech Language and Hearing Scientist
2 types of speech pathologist:
Assistant /master’s level
to be a SLP assistant you must have:
bachelors
to be a SLP you must have:
masters level and fully certified
study, asses, and treat individuals who have hearing impairments. Most work at hearing aid centers
Audiologists
national organization for speech pathologist
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
organization for audiologist
American Academy of Audiology (triple A)
Two ways in which induvial professionals are regulated.
licensure and certification
in the state of Texas, you do a background check, transcript sent over, fingerprint.
Licensure
need masters and will be supervised
Certification
Needed to finally be on your own! Have to have 9 months full time experience and pass exam.
Certificate of Clinical Competence
guide what you should be doing ‘code of ethics’ helps decide what is the right thing to do in a situation.
Ethics
Nervous System is divided into 2 systems
Central nervous system and Peripheral nervous system
includes the brain and the spinal cord
Central nervous system
includes the cranial nerves and the spinal nerves
Peripheral nervous system
The nervous system has billions of _____. they differ in size, shape, and what they do. The basic unit of the nervous system.
neuron
smaller, short, lots of them, bring the information into the cell body by making contact with other cells.
Dendrites
controlling station
Nucleus
cell body
soma
sends information out to other cells
axon
found on the axon. Covers the entire axon helps transmit impulses
Myelin sheaths
sensory that sends information from the body, into the brain
Afferent
motor that sends information from the brain to the body
Efferent
chemical messengers of the nervous system
Neurotransmitters
process of firing neurotransmitters from the end of the axon over the dendrites of another neuron
Synapse
area at the end of the axon, that carries the neurotransmitters
Presynaptic area
the space between the presynaptic area and the postsynaptic area.
Synaptic Cleft
area on the dendrite, that receive information
Post synaptic area
includes the cerebrum, brain stem, cerebellum, and spinal cord
Central Nervous System