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| What is a Misarticulation? |
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| Speech articulation errors of Substitution, Omission, Distortion or Addition. (Hint: Think about Pepsi!) |
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| A determination of how well the client can produce the target sound when the sound has been repeatedly presented .visually and auditorally. |
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| A collection of physical features that co-occur and characterize a disorder or condition. |
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What is Diadochkinesis?
(dahy-ad-uh-koh-ki-nee-sis) |
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| The rapid, alternating movements of a body part, such as the lips and tongue rapidly. (For example: Puh-Kuh-Tuh-Kuh repeatedly.) |
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| What is a Substitution Error? |
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| A type of articulation error characterized by an incorrect phoneme used in place of a target phoneme, such as /w/ for /r/. |
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| What is an Omission Error? |
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| One of the four types of articulatory errors, in which the sound is totally omitted. For example Fih for Fish. |
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| What is a Distortion Error? |
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| The production of a target phoneme utilizing a sound that is not in the language such as in a lateral lisp. |
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| What is an Addition Error? |
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| A type of articulation error characterized by adding a sound to the target phoneme or word. Such as Fishah in place of Fish. |
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| What is Delayed Auditory Feedback? |
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| An event produced when a device presents the listener's own speech or voice after a time delay. |
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| The total number of cases present in a population in a given period of time. |
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| The involuntary repetition, interruption, and prolongation of speech sounds and syllables, which the individual struggles to end. |
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| The number of cases that appear in a population over a set period of time. |
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| What is the Diagnosogenic Theory of Stuttering? |
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| Theory that suggests stuttering begins when normal disfluencies are labeled as stuttering. |
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| A disorder of fluency characterized by rapid speech breaks in fluency, and fault articulation. |
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| What is a Voice Disorders? |
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| Problems related to pitch, loudness, voice quality and resonance. |
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| What is Traumatic Laryngitis? |
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| A dysphonia related to excessive use of harmful voice behaviors such as yelling and screaming. |
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| Benign growths on the vocal folds, usually bilateral, which are typically the result of laryngeal abuse and voice misuse. |
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| Attempts to produce a voice that results in a whisper-like sound. |
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| An impairment of the ability to swallow. |
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| A disorder of voice, such as hoarseness, breathiness or harshness. |
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| Defined as young children whose language skills fall below 90% of their same-age peers. These children are slow to acquire their first 50 words and slow to combine words into phrases. |
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| What is a Developmental Language Disorder/ |
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| A condition involving poor language skills that appear during childhood. |
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| What is a Specific Language Impairment? |
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| A diagnosis of a child who demonstrates impairment in understanding spoken language, speaking, reading and writing with no other demonstrable impairment. |
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| What is a Norm-Reference Test? |
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| Test designed to allow comparisons between an individuals performance and a group of individuals of similar age. |
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| What is a Criterion-Reference Test? |
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| A type of measurement that is used to compare a childs performance against a standard, or "criterion", for behavior. |
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| A reduced ability to name objects or retrieve desired words. |
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| Shifting by speakers among one or more dialects or languages to accommodate social rules or situational demands. |
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| What are Normative Samples? |
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| A representative sample of individuals whose performance on a test or measure serves as a reference against which a single individuals performance can be compared. |
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| An impairment of reading due to developmental or acquired brain damage. |
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