Speech and language disorder

What is a speech therapist?

• A song

• A profession

• An animal

• A building

Expressive language is:

• An apple

• A room

• How a person communicates their wants or needs

• A color

What is stuttering ?

• An element

• A fluency disorder

• A disease

• A color

__________ is the physical process of making the sounds and sound combinations of language

• Speech

• Language

• Projection

• None of the above

__________ is essentially the system according to which people agree to talk about or represent environmental events

• Speech

• Language

• Projection

• None of the above

A child with a speech disorder may have difficulty with which of the following:

• Producing sounds properly

• Speaking in a normal flow

• Speaking with a normal rhythm

• Using his or her voice in a effective way

• All of the above

Which of the following developmental events does NOT normally happen in the first year of life?

• The child’s voice begins to rise and fall while making sounds

• The child begins to understands certain words

• The child begins to form words into short sentences

• The child may perform an action when asked

• The child may respond appropriately to the word or his own name

The most intensive period of speech and language development for humans is during the first three years of life, a period when the brain is developing and maturing.

• True

• False

Who do SLT work with?

• Adults

• Infants

• School-aged children & adolescents

• Animals

• Toddlers

School-based speech-language work as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team, which may include?

• Teachers & intervention specialists

• Audiologists

• Social workers

• Psychologists

• Physical & occupational therapists