Vocab

Question 1

anomia

Answer 1

word finding difficulty

Question 2

aphasia

Answer 2

loss of language abilities and function

Question 3

apraxia

Answer 3

motor speech disorder
affects abilities to execute speech movements

Question 4

automatic speech

Answer 4

produced with little conscious effort or thought

Question 5

articulation

Answer 5

use of articulators to produce speech sounds

Question 6

cluttering

Answer 6

fluency disorder
rapid or irregular speech rate
atypical pauses
maze behaviors etc.

Question 7

dementia

Answer 7

mental deterioration characterized by confusion, poor judgement, impaired memory, disorientation and impaired intellect

Question 8

diadochokinesis

Answer 8

measure of clients ability to make rapidly alternating speech movements

Question 9

disfluency

Answer 9

interruption that interferes or prevent smooth flow of speech

Question 10

distortion

Answer 10

changing a sound which might seem like a lisp

Question 11

dysarthria

Answer 11

difficulty speaking because the muscles used for weak

Question 12

expressive abilities

Answer 12

ability to express yourself. refers to language expression through speech but can also use gestures, sign language etc.

Question 13

fluency

Answer 13

flow of speech

Question 14

intelligibility

Answer 14

level where speech is understood by others

Question 15

MLU

Answer 15

mean length of utterance
average number of morphemes per utterance

Question 16

morpheme

Answer 16

smallest unit of language that has meaning

Question 17

morphology

Answer 17

study of putting sounds and words together to form meaning

Question 18

perseveration

Answer 18

inappropriate repetition of the same word thought or behavior
associated with aphasia

Question 19

phonology

Answer 19

study of sound system of language including speech sounds speech patterns and rules

Question 20

primary language

Answer 20

language a person learned first and used most often during early stages

Question 21

prognosis

Answer 21

prediction or judgement about course duration and prospects for improvement of disorder

Question 22

prosody

Answer 22

variations in rate loudness stress intonation and rhythm

Question 23

receptive abilities

Answer 23

understanding and comprehending language

Question 24

alternate form reliability

Answer 24

consistency between two forms of same test

Question 25

test retest reliability

Answer 25

results are consistent of test administered two different times

Question 26

split half reliabiltiy

Answer 26

results on exams are intended to be progressively more difficult

Question 27

face validity

Answer 27

test measure what it says it does

Question 28

content validity

Answer 28

items measure what they are meant to measure

Question 29

construct validity

Answer 29

ability to measure specific skills come compared to other known constructs such as age IQ and gender

Question 30

predictive validity

Answer 30

test predict future performance or ability

Question 31

semantics

Answer 31

study of meaning of language at the word, sentence and conversational levels

Question 32

social (pragmatic) communication disorder

Answer 32

difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication

Question 33

stammer

Answer 33

speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words

Question 34

syntax

Answer 34

study of phrase and sentence structure

Question 35

TBI

Answer 35

result of acute assault on the brain

Question 36

mean

Answer 36

average of scores

Question 37

median

Answer 37

score right in the middle

Question 38

mode

Answer 38

frequency of one score

Question 39

z-score

Answer 39

standard score indicating number of standard deviations

Question 40

basal

Answer 40

number of correct responses to determine starting point

Question 41

ceiling

Answer 41

number of error responses to determine stopping point

Question 42

standard deviation

Answer 42

normal distribution 68% = 1 SD 95% = 2 SD 98% = 3 SD

Question 43

scaled scores

Answer 43

describe how far above or below the mean 10 is the mean

Question 44

standard scores

Answer 44

describe how far above or below the mean 100 indicates mean

Question 45

percentiles

Answer 45

indicates rank compared to others of same grade or age