speech communication disorders

Question 1

who are the main players

Answer 1

WHO- world health organization
CDC- center for disease control
ASHA- american speech language hearing association
MEDICARE
State early intervention service

Question 2

who is the SLP?

Answer 2

person trained in assessing and intervening disorders of speech( articulation, voice, fluency) language(receptive/expressive) and swallowing( dysphasia). also involved in accent reduction and transgender voice treatment

Question 3

what does the audiologist do?

Answer 3

measures, prevent disorders of hearing and balance , and assess hearing abilities
(they treat patients across the lifespan and are present at the newborns first hearing screening)

Question 4

who or what counts as a referral to an SLP

Answer 4

developmental history
hearing screening or hearing test
parent, teacher, doctor
* an SLP must have a referral source to evaluate or begin treatment*

Question 5

who gives referral to an audiologist

Answer 5

no one!! audiologists are independent professional who can practice without prescription from any healthcare providers

Question 6

evidence base practice EBP is based on two assumptions

Answer 6

1. clinical skills (not just from experience but from the currently available data)
2. expert SLP or audiologist (continually seek new therapeutic info to improve efficacy)

Question 7

what IS a communication disorder?

Answer 7

the inability to receive, and send, process, and comprehend concepts of verbal nonverbal and graphic info.
-can affect hearing, language, or speech processes
- range is mild, moderate, severe. profound
- may be developmental or acquired

Question 8

what ARE communication disorders?

Answer 8

1. speech disorder- the atypical on speech sounds, interruption in the flow of speaking or abnormal productions and or/ absences of voice quality( pitch, loudness, resonance, duration)
2. language disorder- an impairment in the comprehension and or us of spoken, written and/or other symbolic systems ( such as English
3. hearing disorder- the result of. impaired sensitivity auditory or hearing system ( deaf or hard of hearing)

Question 9

what is communication?

Answer 9

exchange of ideas between senders and receiver (involves message transmission and response or feedback)

Question 10

language is described as a…..

Answer 10

• socially shared code (that is used to represent concepts) (the code) that uses arbitrary symbols combined in rule governed ways
  (the characteristics of language are that it is a socially shared tool, arbitrary code, generative process, and dynmaic scheme)

Question 11

language is…

Answer 11

1. rule governed;( rule of language make up its grammar)
2. generative; (you creare new utterance)
3. dynamic;( it changes over time)

Question 12

what are the language domains

Answer 12

1. form; (phonology, morphology, syntax)
2. content; (semnatics)
3. use; (pragmatics)

Question 13

phonology

Answer 13

-the sound system of language
- IPA
- smallest unit of languages that overlays the meaning to motor movements of speech

Question 14

what is morphology

Answer 14

-the smallest unit of language that expresses meaning (free vs bound, prefixes and suffixes) ( pretest, softly)

Question 15

what is syntax

Answer 15

sentence level structure of language that marks relationships between rules and ideas
-aka grammar
ex: feed the dog, did you make the bed

Question 16

semantics

Answer 16

the meaning of languages

Question 17

pragmatics

Answer 17

• how we use languages ( form and content)
• culturally varies

Question 18

etiology

Answer 18

the cause or origin of a problem (may be used to classify a communication problem, can be congenital: disorders which are present at birth, acquired: disorder which from illness accident or environment all circumstances anytime later in life
* an individual may have a disorder that is withe congenital acquired or both)

Question 19

disorder of form

Answer 19

an error in sound use (such as not pronouncing the ends of words constitutes a disorder of phonology

Question 20

disorder of content

Answer 20

those with limited vocabularies or misuse words and with word finding difficulties may have disorders of content or semantics

Question 21

disorder of use

Answer 21

immature or disorder phonology, morphology, and syntax(pragmatic language problems may be related to limited or unacceptable conversational social and narrative skills deficits in spoken vocabulary and/or

Question 22

disorder of articulation

Answer 22

ie: a problem making sounds snd forming particular speech sounds

Question 23

disorder of fluency

Answer 23

repetition, prolongation and stuttering