Communication Sciences And Disorders Quiz 1

Speech language pathology

Branch of health care devoted to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of speech, language, swallowing, and other communicative related disorders.

Speech language pathologist (SLP)

Certified health care professionals who provide services related to the prevention, evaluation, and rehabilitation of speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, fluency, and other related disorders.

Audiology

Branch of health care devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of hearing and balance disorders.

Audiologist

Certified health care professionals who provide services related to prevention, evaluation, and rehabilitation of hearing impairment and its associated communicative disorders.

Communication

Communication is a means by which information is transmitted between a sender and receiver.

Language

Language is the verbal, written, gestural symbol system recognized and shared by members of a community. The sender and receiver must be proficient at using the symbols for effective communication.

Sender

The job of the sender is to “encode” and “transmit” the symbol.

Encoding

Encoding is the process of converting the information you want to transmit into code.

Receiver

The job of the receiver is to “decode” the transmitted message and send “feedback” to the sender.

Decoding

Decoding is the process of extracting meaning from the transmitted encoded message.

Communication Disorder

A communication disorder is a condition that limits or prevents human communication.

Phone

A “phone” is an individual speech sound with it’s own unique sound wave when spoken.

Phoneme

A “phoneme” is a speech sound used to change the meaning of a word.

Morpheme

A “morpheme” is the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning.

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure.

Phonology

The study of the rules of how phonemes are combined to form words.

Morphology

The study of how word parts (the morphemes) are combined to create a different word.

Syntax

The study of how words and phrases are arranged to create a sentence.

Semantics

The study of the literal (true or intended) meaning of words.

Pragmatics

The study of the meaning of words based on the context in which the word was used.