Fluency Disorders, Hearing Disorders, and Voice Disorders Review

These flashcards cover vocabulary related to fluency disorders, hearing disorders, and voice disorders, facilitating study and understanding of key concepts and definitions.

Fluency

The flow of speech during communication.

Disfluency

Speech behavior being disrupted in rate, rhythm, smoothness, effort, or automaticity.

Stuttering-like Dysfluencies (SLDs)

Types of disfluencies including prolongation, blocks, and sound repetitions.

Fluency Disorders

Abnormally high frequencies and durations of dysfluencies that impact functionality.

Typical Disfluencies

Examples include word repetition, phrase repetition, sentence repetitions, hesitations, and interjections.

Core behaviors of Stuttering

Disfluent speech patterns characterized by various types of disfluencies.

Secondary behaviors in Stuttering

Responses to core behaviors, including escape and avoidance behaviors.

Predisposing factors for Stuttering

Factors like family history, gender difference, and brain morphology that may contribute to stuttering.

Cluttering

A fluency disorder characterized by rapid speech with frequent pauses and blending of sounds.

Audiology

The branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders.

Conductive Hearing Loss

A type of hearing loss that occurs due to issues in the outer or middle ear, resulting in reduced loudness.

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

A type of hearing loss that involves the inner ear and auditory nerve, affecting clarity and loudness.

Audiogram

A chart that graphically represents a person's hearing ability across different frequencies and intensities.

Voice Disorders

Disorders resulting in significant differences in pitch, loudness, or quality of voice that affect communication.

Dysphonia

Disordered voice with at least one parameter affected.

Vocal Nodules

Small growths on the vocal cords caused by vocal abuse, leading to voice problems.

Spasmodic Dysphonia

A neurogenic voice disorder characterized by intermittent voice stoppages due to laryngeal spasms.

Alaryngeal communication

Voice production methods used when there is no larynx, such as using an artificial larynx or esophageal speech.

Multi-disciplinary Voice Assessment

Voice assessment involving various professionals to evaluate vocal health and address disorders.