Aphasia Flashcards
Aphasia is a characteristic of a _____ sided stroke
LEFT (remember that left is language)
Aphasia is defined as:
A Language disability caused by a brain injury
Every aphasic client is different depending on various factors including:
- Site of injury
- Severity of injury
- The Uniqueness of the individual
What are the two classifications of aphasia?
Fluent and Non-Fluent
Characteristics of Non-fluent aphasia:
- Verbal expression is agrammatic (usually missing function words), lacking in prosody, slow and effortful
- Relative comprehension strengths
- May also experience gross motor deficits and/or motor speech challenges
- Frontal lobe injury in the language dominant hemisphere
Fluent Aphasia characteristics:
-Fluent (although nonsensical speech) with impaired comprehension and self-monitoring (usually do not know they are not making sense)
- Temporal-parietal region of the brain with no gross motor deficits
Define Anomia. Is Anomia a challange with both fluent and non-fluent aphasia?
Word retrieval problems, yes, it is a challenge for both fluent and non-fluent aphasia
Non-Fluent Aphasia is typical of an injury in ______ area, but the other 2 kinds are called _______ and _________ aphasia
Broca’s Area, Transcortical Motor, and Global
Broca’s area is the ____ type of non-fluent aphasia, characterized by:
The main type
characterized by halting, effortful, agrammatic, and telegraphic verbal output
Broca’s aphasia is a language disorder, but ______ and _______ can also co-occur due to the location of the lesion at or near Broca’s area
Apraxia and dysarthria (motor speech disorders)
Describe Telegraphic speech
Phrases and sentences that are made up mostly of nouns and verbs, omitting small function words like “the, of, etc”
Define and describe Agrammatism
Leaving out grammatical markers in sentences and phrases-including verb inflections, articles and prepositions
Define and describe Alexia
Poor reading impairment, can be mild-severe, difficulty understanding written language
A person with Broca’s aphasia may have episodes of clear, fluent speech, which is called __________, what are these episodes usually about?
Automatic Speech. They are usually songs, poems, or sayings that are wired deep into the brain and therefore easier for the brain to retrieve
Those with Broca’s are aphasia are ______ aware of their speech difficulties, and their _______ language is intact
very aware, and their receptive language is still intact
Transcortical Motor non-fluent aphasia characteristics include:
Excellent imitation, with struggle to say their own unique phrases
In transcortical motor aphasia, alexia is usually ______
not present or very minor
The most severe form of aphasia is _______ aphasia, with little to no __________ or __________ language abilities, and _______ deficits in all areas of language comprehension
Global aphasia, with little to no rec. or exp. lang abilities, including severe deficits in language comprehension
The three main types of Fluent aphasias are:
Wernicke’s, Conduction, and Anomic
________ is the main type of fluent aphasia
Wernickes
Wernickes aphasia is fluent and full of ________ with impaired _______
Jargon (similar to a toddler), with impaired comprehension
What are people with Wernickes aphasia typically good at?
- Intonation
- Prosody
- rapid fire strings of speech
People with Wernickes aphasia are ________ of their language deficits
Unaware
People with Wernickes aphasia typically produce Neologisms, what are Neologisms?
Made up words
Circumlocution are:
Unable to produce the word they are trying to say, so they will describe it (talk around it) This is a form of anomia (word retrieval difficulty)
What is the difference between phonemic paraphasia and semantic paraphasia?
Phonemic: Substitution or transposition of a sound
Semantic: Substitution of one word for another (often the word is within the same category) ex. table for chair, truck for car
What are some characteristics of Conduction? (a form of fluent aphasia)
- Fluent speech with good comprehension
- MAIN IMPAIRMENT is the inability to repeat words or phrases
- Can usually read, write, speak, and understand spoken language
- Often paraphasic and anomic
Anomic Fluent aphasia is the _______ severe form of aphasia. It is really a subtype of ____________ _________
least, it is a subtype of frontotemporal dementia
