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#166 After undergoing radiation treatment for oral cancer, Bruce is experiencing xerostomia.  What is the possible etiology?

#176 Which of the following is not considered a compensatory swallowing technique?

#64 You are evaluating a child in the clinic.  His mother expressed concerns about his development in language. He is turning one next month. From the list, circle the skills that you would not expect this child to demonstrate or be reported to use?

#135 Identify the possible complications from having a cochlear implant

#71 This theory, a variant of nativist theory, includes language in a general set of activities that develop and are learned in early childhood.

What do we call a speech-sound disorder due to central or peripheral nervous system damage characterized by weakened, uncoordinated or paralyzed speech muscles?

What element of language is also called form of language? 

#138 Sally is a 7-year-old, has a severe high frequency loss.  She has multiple sound errors. She also doesn’t hear or produce the end of words, especially /s/ and /ed/ because she doesn’t hear them.  Based on these observations, we know that Sally may

#26  IV-C Which of the following characteristics is considered a prosodic impairment in motor speech disorders?

35 IV-D Which intervention is based on systematic instruction, functionally oriented therapeutic activities designed to reinforce or strengthen previously learned patterns of behavior, establishing new patterns of cognitive activity or developing compensatory mechanisms?