Acquired Comm. Disorders in Adults

Question 1

What is Aphasia?

What is important to remember?

Answer 1

When your brain holds your words hostage

Aphasia is a loss of language NOT intellect

DEFINTION: an acquired communication disorder caused by brain damage

Question 2

The left hemisphere is home to what?

Answer 2

Primary language

Question 3

How many types of strokes are there?

What are they?

Answer 3

2 Types

Ischemic Stroke (a clot blocking blood flow to an area of the brain)

Hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding occurs inside or around brain tissue) MORE DANGEROUS

Question 4

What will happen if the R-hemisphere is damaged?

Is the etiology the same as aphasia? What is different?

Answer 4

may result in a wide range of communication and other
behavioral deficits.

Etiology (cause) same as aphasia…just different
location of damag

Question 5

What causes a TBI?

Answer 5

Insult to the brain by penetrating or closed injury

Caused by external or physical force

Question 6

What happends to the person’s LOC?

What other deficits occur?

Answer 6

A TBI produces diminished or altered state ofconsciousness

Can result in cognition impairments, physical deficts, emotional/behavioral disturbances

Question 7

What are the cognitve deficits that occur with a TBI?

Answer 7

Orientation, memory, judgment/reasoning, language

Question 8

What are the emotional//behavioral/psychological deficits that occur with a TBI?

Answer 8

Agitation
Irritability
Impulsivity
Apathy
Disinhibition
Decreased frustration tolerance
Egocentricity
Depression
Reduced insight/awareness