Articulation Disorder - ANS ✔✔when one has a tough time producing a specific sound
ex: substituting a "w" sound for an "r" sound
Communication - ANS ✔✔a process by which information is exchanged between individuals
through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior
Communication Disorder - ANS ✔✔an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and
comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems (articulation, language,
fluency, voice, deafness)
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) - ANS ✔✔professionals trained to identify, diagnose, treat,
and help to prevent communicative disorders; they also work with individuals who have
swallowing disorders as a result of some type of medical condition
Settings that a SLP works in - ANS ✔✔educational settings, hospitals, nursing homes, long-term
care facilities, private clinics, not-for-profit clinics, home health care, university clinics, and as
consultants to industry
Audiologist - ANS ✔✔specialists trained in the non-medical treatment of hearing, balance, and
other related ear problems; trained to evaluate individuals who exhibit symptoms of hearing
loss, balance disorders, and other auditory-related problems
Settings that an Audiologist works in - ANS ✔✔health care facility, hospitals, outpatient care
facilities, university clinics, hearing aid manufacturer, expert witnesses in legal cases
How to protect client/patient/student privacy and confidentiality - ANS ✔✔by not revealing any
professional or personal information about the person without their permission
, What does NSSLHA stand for? - ANS ✔✔National Student Speech Language and Hearing
Association
Central Nervous System - ANS ✔✔a system for receiving sensory information, integrating these
signals with thoughts and memories, and organizing these thoughts to complete an action;
made up of the brain and spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System - ANS ✔✔consists of all neural tissue outside of the brain and the
spinal cord; made up of spinal and cranial nerves
4 lobes of the brain - ANS ✔✔frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital
Frontal Lobe - ANS ✔✔motor area
Parietal Lobe - ANS ✔✔sensory cortex
Temporal Lobe - ANS ✔✔auditory cortex
Occipital Lobe - ANS ✔✔visual area
Adduction - ANS ✔✔closing of the vocal folds
Abduction - ANS ✔✔opening of the vocal folds
12 cranial nerves - ANS ✔✔originate in the brain stem and exit at the base of the skull; two
functions: transmit smell, vision, hearing, and taste information from bodily structures to the