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procedure that adds length to the soft palate and minimizes the contractile forces generated by palatal scar tissue.
Furlow Z-plasty
anterior displacement of a distinct portion of the posterior pharyngeal wall during speech
Passavant’s Ridge
Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration- test given right after birth to assess a newborn’s physical condition
Apgar Scores
an instrument used to measure the pressure of liquids and gasses
manometer
used to measure air volume or flow
spirometer
When is a baby ready to transition to solid foods?
4 to 6 months
What piece of legislation is credited as being the start of the inclusion movement in public schools?
The Regular Education Initiative (REI) in 1985
True or False
Individuals with spinal onset require motor speech intervention later than those with bulbar onset
True
What does the Ethics in Patient Referral Acts of 1989 state?
It prohibits healthcare professionals from referring patients to entities in which they have financial interest
provides a plot of amplitude of a waveform displayed over time
oscilloscope
Mr. Angelo has come to a speech language pathologist for a voice evaluation. His major complaint is difficulty altering the pitch of his voice. Which muscle and nerve are likely to be affected?
Cricothyroid muscle and external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve
True or False Low voels have higher F1 values than do high vowels
True
What articulators are involved in producing a pharyngeal fricative?
Posterior pharyngeal wall and soft palate
What standardaized test enables the measurement of vowel production accuracy?
The Arizona Articulatioin Proficiency Scale-3
This layer of the vocal fold helps to maintain the integrity of the vocal fold shape:
Epithelium
A set of words that are acousitcally similar and have approximately the same frequency of occurrence
an acoustic lexical neighborhood
used to measure impedance between the vocal folds in order to estimate degree of vocal fold contact
electroglottography
which syndrome is characterized by cardiac problems, velopharyngeal inadequacy, and typical facies (e.g., long face, almond-shaped eyes, broad nasal base)?
velocardiofacial syndrome
The medial pterygoid muscle plays an active role in closing jaws during pseech. Which muscle is considered the direct antagonist of the medial pterygoid muscle during speech?
the anterior belly of the digastricus muscle
According to McBride-Chang (1995) phonological awareness tasks require what three skills?
- reasoning
- speech perception
- memory skills
What type of tympanogram is typically produced by a person with an interrupted ossicular chain?
Type Ad
On the Mini-Mental State Examination, scores in what range would suggest that a patient has cognitive impairments correpsonding to moderate severity of dementia?
8 to 15
What is the most anterior prominence of the arytenoid cartilage, where the vocal folds attach?
the vocal process
Who proposed the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory?
Janwillem Van den Berg
What carries out the elevation and lowering of the larynx for respiration and phonation?
the extrinsic laryngeal muscles
the ratio of abductor to addutor duration in the larynx
speed quotient
Men have a vital capacity of
4 to 5 liters
Women have a vital capacity of
3 to 4 liters
What is the prominence of the arytenoid cartialage that forms the attachment for the posterior and the lateral cricoarytenoid muslces?
the muscular process
The phenomenon in which persons who stutter tend to have disfluencies more on clusters than would be expected by chance
adjacency effect
Patients who have difficulty making nonspeech sounds and cannot move the muscles of the throat, soft palate, and tongue for nonspeech purposes
oral apraxia
