week two vocab

Question 1

communication

Answer 1

an exchange of meaning between a sender and reciever

Question 2

language

Answer 2

what you say

Question 3

speech

Answer 3

how you say it

Question 4

acquired disorders

Answer 4

disorders manifested after birth

Question 5

impairment

Answer 5

any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological function

Question 6

disability

Answer 6

reduced competence in meeting daily needs

Question 7

communication disorder

Answer 7

any communication structure

Question 8

organic disorder

Answer 8

physical cause

Question 9

functional disorder

Answer 9

causes cannot be identified

Question 10

developmental disorder

Answer 10

occurs early in maturation

Question 11

incidence

Answer 11

a measure of a number of new cases that occur in a population with specified time period

Question 12

prevalence

Answer 12

percentage of individuals with a disorder at a particular period

Question 13

phonological

Answer 13

when speech production problems are based on the way sounds are represented in the brain

Question 14

fluency disorders

Answer 14

an unusual interruption on the flow of speaking

Question 15

voice disorders

Answer 15

use of inappropriate voice quality, pitch, or loudness compared to others

Question 16

phonatory disorders

Answer 16

results from abnormalities in vocal vibrations that yield changes in loudness and or pitch

Question 17

resonance disorder

Answer 17

problems closing the opening between nose and mouth during speech production

Question 18

psychogenic voice disorder

Answer 18

voice quality caused by psychological stress

Question 19

dementia

Answer 19

a general decrease in cognitive function

Question 20

3 basic types of hearing loss

Answer 20

conductive
sensorineural loss
mixed loss

Question 21

conductive

Answer 21

occurs when sound waves are prevented from moving through the outer ear canal, eardrum, etc.

Question 22

sensorineural loss

Answer 22

occurs when dysfunction in the cochlear or 8th cranial nerve that prevents sound waves from being transformed into signals that may be interpreted by brain

Question 23

mixed loss

Answer 23

includes aspects if both conductive and sensorineural loss

Question 24

unilateral

Answer 24

one ear

Question 25

bilateral

Answer 25

two ears

Question 26

discrimination

Answer 26

hearing the difference between sounds

Question 27

otology

Answer 27

medical speciality that deals with ear disease and the peripheral hearing mechanism

Question 28

interprofessional education (IPE)

Answer 28

when students and educators from multiple health disciplines collaborate in learning environments