SLHS 11500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Communication Disorder, Conductive Hearing Loss, List Of Voice Disorders

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Speech, Lang & Hear Science
• Course: SLHS 11500
• Professor: David Ertmer

Document Summary

The following terms and concepts were taken from assigned readings in the owens, Test questions will also be taken from class lectures. Chapter 1: the field, the professionals, the clients. Communication: exchange of ideas between a receiver and sender. Language: socially shared code used to represent concepts. Articulation: way in which speech sounds are formed using the tongue, teeth and lips. Fillers: er, um, ya know, etc. that disturb fluency. Prosody: the patterns of stress and intonation in speech. Dialects:differences that reflect a particular regional, cultural social or ethnic identity. Pitch: perception of how high or a low a sound is. Vocal abuse: excessive yelling, screaming or loud singing that results in hoarseness or a voice disorder. Dynamic assessment: exploring a client"s ability to modify behavior. Baseline data: data collected before the program of intervention has begun. Key concepts: be able to discuss: be able to classify language disorders/impairments into form, content, or use categories.