MSA #3 Flashcards
What is associated with cleft lip and palate?
1) Dental issues
2) Middle ear infections
3) Feeding problems
What is “an excessive and undesirable amount go perceived nasal cavity resonance during speech”?
Hyper nasality
What is “a reduction in nasal resonance during speech”?
Hypo nasality/ Densality
Compensatory articulation errors that children with clefts make
1) Glottal stops
2) Pharyngeal fricatives
What is included in the “Rule of 10”?
1) 10 grams of hemoglobin
2) 10 pounds in weight
3) 10 weeks in age
What is the surgical repair of cleft palate called?
Palatoplasty
What is “a computer-based instrument that measures the relative amount of nasal acoustic energy in a person’s speech”?
Nasometer
What is a speech appliance that covers “an open palatal defect”?
Palatal obturator
What is a speech appliance “that fills in the pharyngeal space for speech”
Speech bulb obturator
Three things that can cause a neurological communication disorder
1) Traumatic brain injury
2) Stroke
3) Tumor
Aphasia is…
… a deficit in language processing
Receptive aphasia
Having trouble understanding auditory or reading information
Broca’s aphasia
Not a type of fluent aphasia
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Fluent aphasia
Global aphasia
a severe to profound form of aphasia characterized by severely impaired receptive and expressive language
Anomia
impaired ability to retrieve the names of things
Agrammatism
an impairment of the ability to produce words in their correct sequence and with all necessary morphemes
Verbal paraphasia
- word substitution
- saying “sister” instead of “brother”
Litteral paraphasia
- sound substitution
- saying “tar” instead of “car”
Divided attention
responding simultaneously to more than one task
Orientation
1) Person – who the person is and what he is doing
2) Place – where the person is and the surrounding environment
3) Time – month, season, year, time of day, etc.
4) Purpose – understanding and reasoning about why something is occurring/ has happened
Selective attention
“attending to specific stimuli and ignoring others.”
Alternating attention
“shifting focus of attention between tasks”
Sustained attention
attention “to a task for a reasonable length of time”