SSD1 wk1

Speech is ....

• The ability to put words together to make a sentence

• The sounds of spoken language

• Understanding what others say to you

Accent is not a problem unless

• it sounds unusual

• the client doesn't like it

• it makes speech unintelligible

Functional speech sound disorders have a known cause

• True

• False

Articulation concerns

• how we store sounds in our mind

• how we make sounds

• how we perceive sounds

Speaking two or more languages causes speech problems.

• False

• True

Incidence is

• The number of new cases of a disease in a population

• The number of cases of a disease at a given time

• The causes of a disease in a given population

All children are able to achieve perfect speech if they work hard enough.

• True

• False

Phonetics is

• the study of how sounds combine to make meaning in a given language

• the study of the physical properties speech sounds

• the study of how children acquire speech

The difference between consonants and vowels is that

• consonants involve some constriction of airflow whereas vowels do not.

• vowels involve some constriction of airflow whereas consonants do not.