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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Language Pathology | Educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat, and prevent speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders |
| Audiology | Educated and trained to identify, evaluate, treat, and prevent hearing disorders, plus select hearing aids |
| Communicate | Means by which individuals relate wants, needs, feelings, knowledge, and experiences |
| Forms of communication | Speech, sign language, writing, gestures, facial expressions |
| American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) | Professional organization that represents speech-language pathologists and audiologists. |
| Clinical Year Fellowship (CFY) | A 36-week mentored clinical experience after coursework is completed; required by ASHA. |
| continuing education units | Additional education that professionals must do to remain current in the field |
| scope of practice | SLPs identify, evaluate, diagnose, and treat people with communication disorders and swallowing problems. |
| habilitation | The initial learning of a skill. |
| rehabilitation | Re-learning a skill. |
| diagnosis | Determination of the type and cause of a disorder based on signs and symptoms or obtained through case history. |
| language | "a socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols" |
| suprasegmentals | Inflections such as stress, intonation, and rhythm that help listeners understand the true intent of a message and also convey emotions. |
| linguistics | Study of structure and function of a language. |
| phonology | Study of speech sounds and the system of rules underlying sound production and sound combination |
| phoneme | shortest arbitrary unit of sound in a language that can be recognized as being distinct from other sounds. |
| morphology | The study of the structure of words. |
| morpheme | The smallest unit of language having a distinct meaning; prefix, root, suffix. |
| syntax | the rules that dictate the acceptable sequence and combination of words in a sentence |
| grammar | the rules of the use of morphology and syntax |
| semantics | the study of meaning in language conveyed by words, phrases, and sentences |
| idiom | Figure of speech |
| pragmatics | the rules governing the use of language in social situations; includes the relationship of the communicators, their environment, and their intentions. |
| paralinguistics | vocal cues other than words, including volume, rate, pitch, pausing, and silence. |
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