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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


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