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| whole greater than sum of its parts |
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| Man who coined term speech-pathology (1931) |
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| Audiology coined by who? and when? |
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| WW II. Drs. Ray Carhart and Norton Canfield. |
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| what is ASHA? what does the abbreviation stand for? |
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ASHA is the org. for individuals in the field of CSD.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. |
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| Interest in disorders of speech, particularly stuttering. |
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| Speech therapist work where? |
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| Who worked in public settings? (older names) |
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| Speech correctionists or speech teachers. |
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| Why is the year 1976 important to SLP? |
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| It was the year ASHA adopted the title Speech-Language Pathologist. |
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| What are the licensure laws many states have adopted (SLP)? |
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| It is illegal for someone to refer to themselves as a SLP if they don't have a Master's degree. |
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| What is the min. qualification for working as a SLP as stated by ASHA? |
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| Must have a Master's degree |
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Types of activities that SLPs should engage in. Has been expanded to include:
problems due to brain damage.
developmental language delays/disorders in children.
cognitive training/treatment of swallowing disorders.
language stimulation and assisting parents of high-risk infants and toddlers. |
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| Professional who study,assess, and treat people who have hearing impairments. Some do evaluation and diagnosis, others provide educational and/or rehabilitative services. |
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| Medical specialty that deals with ear disease and peripheral hearing mechanism. |
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evaluation of extent and type of hearing loss, assessment of benefits of amplification, and habilitation and rehabilitation of hearing impaired people.
trivia: it was once considered unethical to dispense and sell hearing aids (etc.) currently, a major part. |
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| what is a recent change to Aud. scope of practice? |
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infant hearing screening.
testing balance disorders that may be caused partly by inner ear problems. |
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| What are the 2 ways professionals are regulated? Explain each. |
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Licensure- fully credentialed SLP and Aud. defined by individual state. State sets min. criteria to practice.
Certification- standards are set by professional org. -ASHA. Also set criteria and monitor accreditation of learning institutions. |
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| what does EPB stand for? What do they do? |
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Ethical Practices Board.
Enforce the code of ethics. |
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| what is language production? |
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| Include written, or signed communication. senders encode thoughts into some form of language code. Send commands to muscles. Sequences of spoken sounds leave oral cavity in form of sound waves. |
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| what is language comprehension? |
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| sound waves enter receiver's ear, turned into electrical impulses. carried to brain, recognized as speech and then decoded into words/sentences. |
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| sounds of a language that cause changes in meaning. /k/, /b/, and /t/ (ex. bee, tea, and key). all end in [ee] sound but have diff. meaning. |
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| variant of a sound(phoneme). [ex. light /l/ in lip, different from dark /l/ in dull.] |
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