Final Exam Flashcards
An informed prediction of the outcome of a disorder
Prognosis
A statement distinguishing an individual’s difficulties from the broad range of possibilities
Diagnosis
Rapid and coordinated movement of the tongue, teeth, lips, and palate to produced speech sounds
Articulation
How words are arranged in sentences
Syntax
The smallest meaningful unit of language
Morpheme
Difficulty naming entities
Anomnia
Swallowing disorder
Dysphagia
An impairment due to localized brain injury and affecting understanding, retrieving, and formulating meaningful and sequential elements of language
Aphasia
Reduces consonant-vowel-consonant structure to more familiar consonant-vowel by omitting the final consonant
DFC- Deletion of final consonant
In infancy, long strings of unintelligible sounds with adult-like intonation that develop at about 8 months of age and exhibit the pitch and intonation pattern of the language to which the child is exposed
Jargon
The principles to guide the professionals in the field of communication sciences and disorders
Code of Ethics
The professional who identifies, evaluates, and manages hearing disorders and disorders of balance
Audiologist
The professional who identifies, evaluates, treats, and prevents speech, language, communication, and swallowing disorders
Speech language pathologists
A procedure to measure hearing thresholds via air and bone conduction using graduated steps for loudness for 250-8000 Hz
Pure tone audiometry
Good vocal hygiene could include all but:
drink plenty of fluids
avoid excessive throat clearing and coughing
limit caffeine
gargle with hot salt water
gargle with hot salt water
A hoarse voice reflects irregularities in how the vocal folds perform and may be the result of:
A. vocal nodules
B. laryngectomy
A. Vocal nodules
Intensity or loudness of sound is measured in what?
Decibels
The document that shows the amount of hearing loss in decibels at different frequencies and used to diagnose hearing loss is a what?
Audiogram
When one phoneme is said for another one, for example, if “book” is said as “pook”, this would be an error of what?
Substitution
In treatment, demonstrating the desired response is _________
modeling
A disorder characterized by substantial limitation in intellectual functioning, concurrent related limitation in in adaptive skill areas, and manifested before age 18
Intellectual disability
Persistent absence of voice that is perceived as whispering is _______
Aphonia
The basic frequency level that an individual uses most of the time
Habitual pitch
Localized growths on the vocal folds that are associated with vocal abuse
Vocal nodules
Inflammation of the middle ear, with or without infection
Otitis media
How many morphemes in the words “cats”
two
A semantic language problem is a disorder of
content, meaning
A receptive language problem is a problem of
understanding
Which one is not important to choosing an intervention for clients needing augmentative communication?
A. individualize the content
B. give a standardized test
B
The discipline involved in the prevention, identification, and evaluation of hearing disorders, the selection and evaluation of hearing aids, and the habilitation/rehabilitation of individuals with earing impairment
Audiology
Recommendation for addressing the problem, including placement therapy approaches, counseling suggestions and referrals
Treatment plan
Hearing loss induced through the aging process
Presbycusis
Combination of a sensorineural hearing loss with a conductive component
Mixed loss
The space between the vocal folds when they are open or at rest is ________
glottis