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21 Cards in this Set
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Babbling
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Single- syllable nonpurposeful consonant-vowel (CV) or vowel- consonant (VC) vocalizations that begin at about 4 months of age.
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Baseline data
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Information about client performance before intervention begins
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Baseline Data
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Info about client proformance before intervention begins
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Basilar membrane
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The membrane that forms the floor of the organ of Corti. It is nonuniform in width and thickness, allowing it to respond differenctly to different frequencies of sound ( tonotopically). The basilar membrane contained thousands of hair cells, the receptor cells for the auditory system.
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Behavior modification
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A Systematic method of changing behavior through careful target selection, stimulation, client repsonse, and reinforcement.
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Behavioral Observation Audiometery (BOA)
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A method of assessing infant hearing by presentation of different stimuli and watching for any changing in activity that signals a response.
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Bifid Uvula
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A uvula that is split in half.
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Bilabial
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Pertaining to two lips, as phonemes produced with both lips.
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Bilateral
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Both Sides
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Binaural integration
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The process of assimilating different into presented to each ear into a single unit.
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Blending
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Creating a word from individual sounds and syllables
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Bolus
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A chewed lump of food ready for swallowing.
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Bone anchored heaing aid (BAHA)
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A type of amplification in which some of the components are surgically implanted into the temporal bone of the skull, stimulating the cochlea via bone conduction.
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Bone Conduction
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A method of evaluating hearing by transmitting sound to the inner ear by mechanically vibrating the bones of the skull.
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Bone oscillator
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A small, vibrating device that is positioned against the skull behind the pinna in bone conduction testing.
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Bony hard palate
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Anterior 2/3 of the roof of the mouth
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Booster treatment
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Additional therapy, based on retesting, offered after treatment has been terminated
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Bound morpheme
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A morpheme that must be attached to a free morpheme to communicate meaning; grammatical morpheme
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Breathiness
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Perception of audible air escaping though the glottis during phonation
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Broca's Aphasia
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a nonfluent aphasia that is characterized by short sentencess with agrammatism; anomia; problems with imitation of speech be/c of overall speech problems; slow labored speech and writing; and articulation and phonological errors.
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Bulbar Palsy
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A progressice neurological condition resulting in flaccid dyarthria characterized by muscle atrophy and by rapid, random, irregular, and minute contractions (vasiculation) of nerve bundles.
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