cultural competence - ✔✔Understanding and appropriately responding to the unique
combination of cultural variables that the professional and client/patient/family bring to
interactions.
cultural destructiveness - ✔✔attitudes, policies, and practices that are destructive to cultures
and the individuals who exhibit the culture.
Cultural Blindness - ✔✔The system and its agencies provide services with the expressed
philosophy of being unbiased and have the belief that culture and color make no difference-all
people are the same.
Cultural Incapacity - ✔✔individuals and agencies do not seek to be culturally destructive, but
lack the capacity to help
cultural pre-competence - ✔✔there is awareness and an attempt to improve some aspect of
services to a specific population and clinicians are aware of perceptions, values, and other
elements of their own culture and of cultures different from their own
fluent aphasia - ✔✔Have normal rate and rhythm of speech but lack meaningful content.
aphasia - ✔✔loss of ability to comprehend or formulate speech
How many types of aphasias are there? - ✔✔2: fluent and non fluent
nonfluent aphasia - ✔✔difficulty initiating speech; choppy short utterances with some
articulatory difficulty
, left neglect - ✔✔experience sensory neglect on left side of body
apraxia of speech - ✔✔difficulty producing learned speech movements
TBI (traumatic brain injury) - ✔✔Results from a sudden trauma or piercing of the skull.
Dementia - ✔✔Impairment of short and long term memory with related changes in abstract
thinking, judgment, and personality.
Wernicke's area - ✔✔a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually
in the left temporal lobe, it's the brain's primary language area and processing of sound.
Loudness - ✔✔The physiological correlate of intensity
Broca's area - ✔✔the area in the left frontal lobe responsible for the ability of speech and
speech-motor planning.
Pitch - ✔✔The perceptual correlate of frequency.
Loudness - ✔✔Associated with the amount of sub-glottal air pressure that is built up before
producing sounds, degree of vocal tensing, and length of time associated with vocal cord
adduction.
Pitch - ✔✔Related to the number of vocal cord vibrations produced within a period of given
time.
What are the 3 cartilages of the vocal cords? - ✔✔Thyroid, cricoid, and arytenoid