| speech audiometer | An audiometer that provides spoken material at controlled sound pressure levels to obtain speech reception thresholds, tolerance for loud speech, and discrimination ability, utilizing either a live voice with a microphone or a recorded voice played over a turntable or tape recorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| speech audiometry | Measurement of overall performance in hearing, understanding, and responding to speech for a general assessment of hearing and an estimate of degree of practical handicap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech bulb | A prosthetic speech aid; a restoration used to close a cleft or other opening in the hard or soft palate, or to replace absent tissue necessary for the production of good speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech centres | Areas of the cerebral cortex centrally involved in speech function; one is in the left inferior frontal gyrus, a second one in the supramarginal, angular, and first and second temporal gyri. See: Broca's centre, Wernicke's centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech discrimination tests | Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech disorders | Long-term disorders in speaking or in perception of speech. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech intelligibility | Ability to make speech sounds that are recognizable. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech-language pathology | The study of speech or language disorders and their diagnosis and correction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech, oesophageal | A method of speech used after laryngectomy, with sound produced by vibration of the column of air in the oesophagus against the contracting cricopharyngeal sphincter. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech pathologist | A specialist who evaluates and treats people with communication and swallowing problems. Also called a speech therapist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech pathology | The science concerned with functional and organic speech defects and disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech perception | The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes). (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech production measurement | Measurement of parameters of the speech product such as vocal tone, loudness, pitch, voice quality, articulation, resonance, phonation, phonetic structure and prosody. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech reception threshold test | A test to determine the lowest sound intensity level at which fifty percent or more of the spondaic test words (words of two syllables having equal stress) are repeated correctly. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech therapist | <specialist> An individual trained to assist patients in restoring speech and communication functions. (05 Mar 2000) |