The field, the professional, and the clients lecture

Question 1

What is usually affected first when there is a possible communication disorder?

Answer 1

Hearing is usally tested first to rule out either a communication disorder or to find a underlying condition

Question 2

What is a speech disorder?

What are the things that are affected?

Answer 2

A speech disorder is an atypical production of speech sounds, interruption in the flow of speaking, or abnormal production and/or absence of voice quality

Pitch, loudnees, resonance (air flow through the oral cavity) and duration

Question 3

What is a language disorder?

Answer 3

impairment in comprehension and/or use of spoken, written, and/or symbol systems

Question 4

What is a hearing disorder?

What are some examples?

Answer 4

impaired sensitivity in the peripheral (outer, middle, and inner ears) and/or central (auditory brainstem) auditory systems

Receptive language (what you say)

Expressive (vocab is reduced/limited)

Aphasia (know what you want to say but cannot

Question 5

What is important to know about communication disorders?

Answer 5

They are NOT differences!

Question 6

What is ASHA?

What is their vision?

Their mission?

Answer 6

ASHA–American Speech Language Hearing Association (A national professional, scientific, and credentialing assocation)

Vision– making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all

Mission– empowering and supporting audiologists, speech-paths, and speech/language scientists

Question 7

How prevelant is having a disability?

Answer 7

1 in 5 have a disability

Question 8

When did Audiology become a profession?

Answer 8

1920s with a boom in the 1940s d/t WWII and because of the hearing damage from the war