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Table Top Play 

Organized play that occurs at a table or related location. For example a board game, cards, etc.

Tact 

Labeling or naming an item that is present. For example:

Therapist Client
“What’s this called?” (pencil) ? “pencil”
“What do you see?” ? “a bird flying”
Tactile Defensiveness 

An obvious dislike to being touched, or to a food, fabric, or sensation that is usually accompanied by a negative emotional response.

Tactile System 

Provides us with our sense of touch.

Tangible Reinforcer 

A tangible item used as a reinforcer in order to increase or maintain targeted behavior. For example, a favorite food, toy or book.

Tantrum 

The expression of intense frustration. Typical of children that cannot typically express emotions or verbalize needs.

Target Behavior 

A behavior that a client is taught and expected to learn.

Targets 

Refers to individual tasks the child is working on within his/her current programs.

Teacher 

Term used broadly to include teachers trained to work with deaf and hard-of-hearing children, teachers in ordinary (mainstreamed) classrooms, or a resource teacher who may work with children who have special needs.

Tele-rehabilitation 

Also referred to as Telepractice, may be defined is the provision of treatment services at a distance. Rather than being a substitute for face-to-face sessions, telepractice is a new, proven system for providing aphasia treatment to clients all over the world. It is critical to not only use tools and activities designed to exploit neuroplasticity, but to also that take advantage of technology when using telepractice.

Telepractice 

Also referred to as tele-rehabilitation, may be defined is the provision of treatment services at a distance. Rather than being a substitute for face-to-face sessions, telepractice is a new, proven system for providing aphasia treatment to clients all over the world. It is critical to not only use tools and activities designed to exploit neuroplasticity, but to also that take advantage of technology when using telepractice.

Text Comprehension 

The reason for reading: understanding what is read by reading actively (making sense from text) and with purpose (for learning, understanding, or enjoyment).

Textual 

Reading a word or phrase.

Themed Activity 

This refers to groups of activities that are based around a common theme. For example, you may have activities that are all about sports or winter. Themed activities can be great for working on speech and language skills.

Theory of Mind 

A “Theory of Mind” (often abbreviated as TOM) is a specific cognitive ability to understand others as intentional agents, that is, to interpret their minds in terms of theoretical concepts of intentional states such as beliefs and desires. It has been commonplace in philosophy (see Davidson 1984; Dennett 1987) to see this ability as intrinsically dependent upon our linguistic abilities. After all, language provides us a representational medium for meaning and intentionality : thanks to language we are able to describe other people’s and our own actions in an intentional way as in : “Ralph believes that Mary intends him to persuade George that p”. According to this view, the intentionality of natural language, that is, its suitability for expressing meanings and thoughts, is the key for understanding the intentionality of our theory of mind.

Therapeutic Feeding & Swallowing 

For children who may be eating a limited variety of foods or may having difficulty chewing and/or swallowing.

Therapist 

One who specializes in the provision of a particular therapy.

Therapy 

Treatment of illness, disability, or delay.

Therapy for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing 

SLP’s assist clients in learning to discriminate the sounds of language and the environment. They help their clients learn to say the sounds of language and to produce words and sentences to communicate. They assist in use their hearing aids or cochlear implants effectively and develop lip reading skills. They also help them to develop oral, written and sign language knowledge and skills. Cued Speech may be used to facilitate the reception of spoken language and to develop spoken language comprehension.

Thermal Stimulation 

placing ice or a cold object on a weak muscle to stimulate nerve and muscle reaction.

Token Economy System 

A student earns tokens for exhibiting the desired behavior. The tokens are exchanged at a later time for a reinforcer which is typically selected by the student.

Tongue 

The most important articulator for speech production is undoubtedly the tongue. During speech, the amazing range of well-controlled movements the tongue can make includes tip-elevation, grooving, and protrusion. The tongue is almost entirely composed of muscle tissue. The parts of the tongue are the tip, front (the widest part), back (from the back teeth to the pharynx), and root (where it joins the lower jaw). It is anchored underneath by the lingual fraenulum.

Tongue Thrust 

Swallowing with a forward movement of the tongue in which the tongue pushes against the teeth; can result in misarticulation of various phonemes.

Tongue-Tie / Ankyloglossia 

A tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia / Short fraenulum / Short fraenum) is a birth defect in which the lingual fraenulum, a band of tissue under the tongue, anchors the tongue too tightly from below so that the tongue has a ‘W’ appearance when the affected person tries to protrude it Tongue-tie may or may not affect speech, but all tongue ties should be checked by a SLP/SLT.

Tourette’s Syndrome 

A severe neurological disorder characterized by multiple facial and other body tics, usually beginning in childhood or adolescence and often accompanied by grunts and compulsive utterances, for example, interjections and obscenities. Also called Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.

Transcriptive 

Writing and spelling words or phrases.

Transition 

The process of a child moving from an early intervention program to a preschool program or other support service.

Transition Plan 

This is a special plan that documents goals and objectives for a student that aid him/her in making the transition from school to work. These plans are typically created in the high school years.

Transition Services 

IEP requirement; designed to facilitate movement from school to the workplace or to higher education.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) 

Damage to the brain resulting from bruising and laceration caused by forceful contact with the inner surface of the skull, edema or swelling, death of tissue, or hematoma or focal bleeding.

Treacher Collins Syndrome 

A condition affecting the development of bones and tissues in the face. Some people born with this syndrome are born with a cleft palate and defects in the middle ear as well.

Treatment Plan 

An organized course of action, involving goals/objectives and methods for treatment of a patient.

Trial 

One trial consists of the therapist giving an Sd (instruction) to the child and the child gives a response.

Triphthong 

A triphthong is like a 3-part vowel containing a glide from one vowel quality to another, to another, as in the word ‘power’ (pow-oo-uh).

Truly Therapeutic 

Is when an activity, drill or task offers smart and effective practice that truly facilitates recovery. This means that the activity is not just about doing a drill or using an app. That all too often results in nonproductive, busywork. An educated aphasia consumer will then demand that they work he/she does make sense relative to his/her recovery program and adds value to practice.

Tutor 

A person charged with the instruction and guidance of another. Used to describe one who assists another with homework and teaches academic subjects to pupils who require individual instruction. They do not test, remediate or deal with the social-emotional problems typically associated with learning disability. They may not have specialized training in the field of learning disabilities.

Tympanogram 

Tympanography is used to monitor otitis media with effusion (‘glue ear’). It is a measure of energy transmission through the middle ear, and the results are represented as a tracing on a tympanogram.