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When a person struggles with specific sound errors, they have an ___________________ disorder; when a person has sound errors with patterns, they have a __________________ disorder.

The causal factors of voice disorders were grouped into three different categories: vocal abuse/misuse, medical, and psychogenic. Match the definition or example of voice disorder to the appropriate category. 

Select the duties that would most likely fall to the speech-language pathologist (SLP) as a member of the cleft palate team.

Select the appropriate words from the following list to fill in the blanks describing the speech production process. Some of the words will not be used. Word Bank: vocal folds, trachea, lungs, speech, nasality, resonance, oral, phayngeal, nasal, vibrate During the speech production process, an individual breathes air in which fills the _[BLANK-1]_ with air.  The diaphragm pushes the air up and out.  On the way out, the air hits the _[BLANK-2]__ which causes them to _[BLANK-3]__.  This allows the individual to produce __[BLANK-4]__.  The quality or __[BLANK-5]__ of the sound is affected by the __[BLANK-6]__ and _[BLANK-7]__ cavities.  

1.)The PNS consists of 12 pairs of cranial nerves. Identify 2 cranial nerves key to speech, hearing and swallowing; include their Roman numeral, name, and function.

The primary function of respiration is speech production.

During speech, the soft palate must provide closure to the nasal cavity by touching the pharyngeal wall.  If this does not occur, what happens to a person’s quality of speech?

Inspiratory muscles are used during _________________ while expiratory muscles are during ________________.

Select the correct definition of: speech disorder

A hardware technician is reinstalling a heat sink with a central processing unit (CPU). Which of the following steps should the technician take to reinstall the heat sink without damaging the socket? (Select all that apply.)