Vocab Flashcards
anomia
word finding difficulty
aphasia
loss of language abilities and function
apraxia
motor speech disorder
affects abilities to execute speech movements
automatic speech
produced with little conscious effort or thought
articulation
use of articulators to produce speech sounds
cluttering
fluency disorder
rapid or irregular speech rate
atypical pauses
maze behaviors etc.
dementia
mental deterioration characterized by confusion, poor judgement, impaired memory, disorientation and impaired intellect
diadochokinesis
measure of clients ability to make rapidly alternating speech movements
disfluency
interruption that interferes or prevent smooth flow of speech
distortion
changing a sound which might seem like a lisp
dysarthria
difficulty speaking because the muscles used for weak
expressive abilities
ability to express yourself. refers to language expression through speech but can also use gestures, sign language etc.
fluency
flow of speech
intelligibility
level where speech is understood by others
MLU
mean length of utterance
average number of morphemes per utterance
morpheme
smallest unit of language that has meaning
morphology
study of putting sounds and words together to form meaning
perseveration
inappropriate repetition of the same word thought or behavior
associated with aphasia
phonology
study of sound system of language including speech sounds speech patterns and rules
primary language
language a person learned first and used most often during early stages
prognosis
prediction or judgement about course duration and prospects for improvement of disorder
prosody
variations in rate loudness stress intonation and rhythm
receptive abilities
understanding and comprehending language
alternate form reliability
consistency between two forms of same test
test retest reliability
results are consistent of test administered two different times
split half reliabiltiy
results on exams are intended to be progressively more difficult
face validity
test measure what it says it does
content validity
items measure what they are meant to measure
construct validity
ability to measure specific skills come compared to other known constructs such as age IQ and gender
predictive validity
test predict future performance or ability
semantics
study of meaning of language at the word, sentence and conversational levels
social (pragmatic) communication disorder
difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication
stammer
speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words
syntax
study of phrase and sentence structure
TBI
result of acute assault on the brain
mean
average of scores
median
score right in the middle
mode
frequency of one score
z-score
standard score indicating number of standard deviations
basal
number of correct responses to determine starting point
ceiling
number of error responses to determine stopping point
standard deviation
normal distribution
68% = 1 SD
95% = 2 SD
98% = 3 SD
scaled scores
describe how far above or below the mean
10 is the mean
standard scores
describe how far above or below the mean
100 indicates mean
percentiles
indicates rank compared to others of same grade or age
