Speech Pathologist - Answers identify, assess, and treat communication disorders in all modalities
(includes reading, writing, etc.)
Speech Pathologist - Answers -Certificate of Clinical Competence in SLP (CCC-SLP)
-Certification as teacher of students with speech and language disabilities
-license as an SLP
Audiologist - Answers prevent, assess, manage and identify individuals with hearing and balance
disorders
Audiologists - Answers -4 years of grad school
-Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A)
-License as audiologist
Speech, Language, and Hearing Scientists - Answers ASHA requirements: research doctoral degree
(Ph.D), no C's required
Professional aides - Answers -perform tasks as prescribed, directed, and supervised by ASHA-certified
SLP
-ASHA requirements: associates degree in an SLPA program/bachelor's degree in an SLP or
communication sciences and disorder program, 100 hours of supervised field work, and demonstrate
competency in the skills required of an SLPA
Sociolinguists - Answers a person who studies the cultural identity, setting, and participants on
communicative variables
Evidence-based Practice - Answers -based on clinical expertise and currently available data
-a combination of scientific evidence, clinical experience, and client needs are taken into account when
making clinical decisions
Effectiveness - Answers -probability of benefit from an intervention method under average conditions
-"What works"
Efficiency - Answers -results from application of the quickest method involving the least effort and
greatest positive benefit, including unintended effects
-can be used to determine potential effectiveness
, Efficacy - Answers the probability of benefit to individuals in a defined population from a specific
intervention applied for a given communication problem under ideal conditions
Speech disorder - Answers -may involve articulation, fluency, or voice and quality
-can affect people of all ages
-can be congenital or acquired
-be due to numerous causes
-reflect any degree of severity
articulation - Answers production of speech sounds
fluency - Answers rhythm and rate of speech
voice - Answers pitch, loudness
congenital - Answers present at birth
acquired - Answers obtained after birth
Language disorder - Answers -may affect a person's ability to understand, talk, read, or write
-can be a disorder of form, content or use
form - Answers -consists of phonology, morphology, and syntax
-sounds, how sounds are arranged into words, and word structure
content - Answers meaning (semantics) of language
use - Answers -purpose of language
pragmatics
-vary with culture
hearing disorder - Answers -results from impaired auditory sensitivity in the auditory or hearing system
-can affect the ability to detect sound, recognize voices or other auditory stimuli, and/or discriminate
between different sounds
auditory processing disorder - Answers type of hearing disorder in which a patient has normal hearing
but still has difficulty understanding speech
language - Answers -components: Content, form, and use
-characteristicsJ: General, and dynamic