Hi, my name is Marilie Belleau and I want to be a speech therapist. It is my third year in Natural Science. After the CEGEP, I want to study in teaching to access to the master's degree in speech therapy. The job of the speech therapist is to help people with swallowing, language and communication disorders. They can take care of the prevention and screening of a disorder that is related to language. Afterwards, they can make recommendations and do exercises to improve or even erase their disorder. This glossary brings together 20 words that I will need in my field of study. This glossary will be useful for all new speech therapists and for all future students who are going to study this subject.Speech therapies are a way of helping people by offering them services adapted to their needs concerning spoken or written language. It also is the movement related to our mouth and related to sensitive area in our brain. This glossary can help to find symptoms, diseases associated with pronunciation difficulties, to diagnose, etc. There are pictures and examples to help us to put the word into context. I found several words in a website called Association Québécoise des Orthophonistes et Audiologistes. The terms all have a point in common, language and what relates to the language. This may be good for explaining what the terms mean to our patient. To find these words, I used the lexical field of speech therapy. To find the definition of most words, I used the CNRTL online dictionary and Oxford language. If you are interested in speech therapy, you should start using and learning the meaning/context of these words to adapt to them. It will be easier.
Aphasia
noun
Neurological disorder characterized by a disturbance in the expression or understanding of spoken and written language, following a lesion of the cerebral cortex.
Example: This patient suffers from aphasia.
fr: Aphasie
Bruxism
noun
Bruxism is described as the clenching or grinding of the teeth.
Example: Teeth grinding is a reflex called bruxism.
fr: bruxisme
Diagnose
verb
Identify, determine a disease or a condition by its symptoms.
Example: The speech therapist diagnosed that the child has a speech disorder.
fr: Diagnostiquer
Fluency
noun
Natural ease that gives no impression of effort.
Example: Logan express himself with fluency.
fr: Aisance
Inflection
noun
Modulation, change of accent or intonation, in the voice.
Example: The speech therapist changed inflection with 4-year-old patient.
fr: Inflexion
Larynx
noun
Phonation organ, located in the neck, between the pharynx and the trachea.
Example: During pronunciation exercises, the larynx rises a lot.
fr: Larynx
Lexical
adjective
Concerning lexicon and vocabulary
Example: I took a lexical approach by demonstrating each words by using picture.
fr: Lexical
Morphosyntax
noun
Study of the morphological and syntactic rules of utterance formation.
Example: I correct my morphosyntax before showing my report.
fr: morphosyntaxe
Neurological
adjective
Relating to the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system.
Example: Following a neurological examination, the associative areas are not active enough.
fr: Neurologique
Phoniatrics
noun
Part of medicine relating to the study of phonation and its disorders.
Example: I advise you to consult a specialist in phoniatrics.
fr: Phoniatrie
Prosody
noun
The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
Example: The importance of prosody in children's language.
fr: Prosodie
Rehabilitation
noun
To subject someone to a treatment, in order to restore in him the normal use of member or a function.
Example: The woman is in rehabilitation to relearn to swallow.
fr: Réhabilitation
Report
noun
Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.
Example: I give him an evaluation report.
fr: Rapport
Resonance
noun
Component of voice quality that involves the articulators present in the oral cavity and the nasal cavity.
Example: The sound of your voice is due to a resonance.
fr: résonance
Stuttering
noun
Disturbance of speech, characterized by hesitation, jerky repetition, painful suspension and even complete impediment of the ability to articulate.
Example: During his oral presentation, Jeremy was stuttering.
fr: Bégaiement
Swallow
verb
Cause or allow (something, especially food or drink) to pass down the throat.
Example: Swallow a sip of water.
fr: Avaler
Syllabization
noun
Operation with consists in decomposing a sequence of the spoken chain.
Example: Elya pratices her syllabization with her speech therapist.
fr: Syllabation
Syndrome
noun
Set of symptoms constituting an entity, and characterizing a pathological state.
Example: My patient is having difficulty articulating due to Down syndrome.
fr: Syndrome
Vocal folds
noun
Taut folds of the mucous membrane of the larynx whose vibration produces vocal sounds. An individual has two. Also called vocal cords.
fr: Plis vocaux
Vocalization
noun
Passage of phoneme from consonant quality to vowel quality.
Example: The young child makes vocalizations before his meeting.
