Adult Language Impairement

Question 1

paralysis of one side of the body

Answer 1

Hemiplegia

Question 2

a form of aphasia in which the patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects

Answer 2

Anomia

Question 3

a disorder of swallowing

Answer 3

Dysphagia

Question 4

strings of unintelligible speech sounds with the intonational pattern of adult speech

Answer 4

Jargon

Question 5

very rapid speech found in people with fluent aphasia and characterized by few pauses, incoherence, inefficiency and pragmatic inappropriateness

Answer 5

Hyperfluent speech

Question 6

neurological conditions that cause a person to lose the ability to think, remember, and reason to the point that it interferes with daily life

Answer 6

Dementia

Question 7

a blood clot, fatty materials, or an air bubble that may travel through the circulatory system until is blocks the flow of blood in a small artery. If it travels to the brain, it may cause a stroke

Answer 7

Embolism

Question 8

stroke, the most common cause of aphasia, results when the blood supply to the brain is blocked or when the brain is flooded with blood

Answer 8

Cerebrovascular accident

Question 9

the involuntary repetition of a thought, behavior, or speech pattern that continues past a desired point or to an extreme degree

Answer 9

Perseveration

Question 10

speech characterized by word substitutions, neologisms, and often verbose verbal output. Also called Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 10

Fluent aphasia