SHS Ch.1
A professional who is specifically educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat and prevent hearing disorders, plus select and evaluate hearing aids and habilitate or rehabilitate individuals with hearing impairments
Audiologist
Intelligibility is the degree of __________ with which an utterance is understood by the average listener, and it is influence by articulation, rate, fluency, vocal quality, and intensity (loudness) of voice:
Clarity
Healthcare, rehabilitation, and educational professionals who are involved in clinical practice who base their practice on direct observation and treatment of patients and clients
Clinician
Any means by which a person relates their wants, needs, thoughts, knowledge, and feelings to another person
Communicate
An impairment in the ability to receive, comprehend, or send messages, verbally, nonverbally or graphically; any articulation, language, voice, resonance, cognitive, or hearing impairment that interferes with conveying/understanding a persons wants, needs, thoughts, feelings and knowledge
Communication disorder
True or False? A traumatic brain injury is an example of a congenital disorder:
False
True or False? An aphonia is more likely to occur than a dysphonia:
False
A communication disorder is an impairment in the ability to receive, comprehend, or send messages, either verbally, nonverbally, or __________:
Graphically
An audiologist is a professional who is specifically educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat, and prevent hearing disorders; select and evaluate hearing aids; and habilitate or rehabilitate individuals with __________ impairments:
Hearing
The nearly constant internal monologue a person has with himself at a conscious or semiconscious level that involves thinking in words; a conversation with oneself
Inner speech/self-talk
Any sensory avenue through which information may be received, that is auditory, visual, tactile, taste, and olfactory smell
Modalities
The smallest unit of language having a distinct meaning-for example, a prefix, root word, or suffix- is known as a:
Morpheme
The rules governing the use of language in social situation, including the speaker-listener relationship and intentions and all elements in the environment surrounding the interaction, are referred to as:
Pragmatics
Voice inflections used in a language such as stress, changes in pitch and rhythm that help listeners understand the true intent of the message and that convey the emotional aspects of a message, such as happiness, sadness, fear or surprise
Prosody/melody
Language is a(n) __________ shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols (sounds, letters, gestures) and rule-governed combinations of those symbols:
Socially
A professional who is specifically educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat and prevent speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders
Speech-language pathologist
A speech-language pathologist is a professional who is specifically educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat, and prevent speech, language, cognitive, and __________ disorders:
Swallowing
Either a single vowel or a vowel and or more consonants
Syllable
The term prevalence refers to:
The estimated number of individuals diagnosed with a particular disorder, disability, or disease at a given time in a region of country
The term incidence refers to:
The total number of new diagnoses of a disorder, disability, or disease in the population of a region or country over a specified period of time
True or False? A child's cultural linguistic background can significantly affect his or her expressive language:
True
True or False? Another word for inner speech or self-talk is thinking:
True
True or False? General American English and Stand American English are the same:
True
True or False? Relatively intact cognitive abilities are important for development of both speech and language:
True