Aphasia

Question 1

Aphasia is a characteristic of a _____ sided stroke

Answer 1

LEFT (remember that left is language)

Question 2

Aphasia is defined as:

Answer 2

A Language disability caused by a brain injury

Question 3

Every aphasic client is different depending on various factors including:

Answer 3

1. Site of injury
2. Severity of injury
3. The Uniqueness of the individual

Question 4

What are the two classifications of aphasia?

Answer 4

Fluent and Non-Fluent

Question 5

Characteristics of Non-fluent aphasia:

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

Fluent Aphasia characteristics:

Answer 6

-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

Question 7

Define Anomia. Is Anomia a challange with both fluent and non-fluent aphasia?

Answer 7

Word retrieval problems, yes, it is a challenge for both fluent and non-fluent aphasia

Question 8

Non-Fluent Aphasia is typical of an injury in ______ area, but the other 2 kinds are called _______ and _________ aphasia

Answer 8

Broca’s Area, Transcortical Motor, and Global

Question 9

Broca’s area is the ____ type of non-fluent aphasia, characterized by:

Answer 9

The main type
characterized by halting, effortful, agrammatic, and telegraphic verbal output

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Apraxia and dysarthria (motor speech disorders)

Question 11

Describe Telegraphic speech

Answer 11

Phrases and sentences that are made up mostly of nouns and verbs, omitting small function words like “the, of, etc”

Question 12

Define and describe Agrammatism

Answer 12

Leaving out grammatical markers in sentences and phrases-including verb inflections, articles and prepositions

Question 13

Define and describe Alexia

Answer 13

Poor reading impairment, can be mild-severe, difficulty understanding written language

Question 14

A person with Broca’s aphasia may have episodes of clear, fluent speech, which is called __________, what are these episodes usually about?

Answer 14

Automatic Speech. They are usually songs, poems, or sayings that are wired deep into the brain and therefore easier for the brain to retrieve

Question 15

Those with Broca’s are aphasia are ______ aware of their speech difficulties, and their _______ language is intact

Answer 15

very aware, and their receptive language is still intact

Question 16

Transcortical Motor non-fluent aphasia characteristics include:

Answer 16

Excellent imitation, with struggle to say their own unique phrases

Question 17

In transcortical motor aphasia, alexia is usually ______

Answer 17

not present or very minor

Question 18

The most severe form of aphasia is _______ aphasia, with little to no __________ or __________ language abilities, and _______ deficits in all areas of language comprehension

Answer 18

Global aphasia, with little to no rec. or exp. lang abilities, including severe deficits in language comprehension

Question 19

The three main types of Fluent aphasias are:

Answer 19

Wernicke’s, Conduction, and Anomic

Question 20

________ is the main type of fluent aphasia

Answer 20

Wernickes

Question 21

Wernickes aphasia is fluent and full of ________ with impaired _______

Answer 21

Jargon (similar to a toddler), with impaired comprehension

Question 22

What are people with Wernickes aphasia typically good at?

Answer 22

• Intonation
• Prosody
• rapid fire strings of speech

Question 23

People with Wernickes aphasia are ________ of their language deficits

Answer 23

Unaware

Question 24

People with Wernickes aphasia typically produce Neologisms, what are Neologisms?

Answer 24

Made up words

Question 25

Circumlocution are:

Answer 25

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)

Question 26

What is the difference between phonemic paraphasia and semantic paraphasia?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What are some characteristics of Conduction? (a form of fluent aphasia)

Answer 27

• 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

Question 28

Anomic Fluent aphasia is the _______ severe form of aphasia. It is really a subtype of ____________ _________

Answer 28

least, it is a subtype of frontotemporal dementia