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Aphasia Flashcards

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Speech characteristics (Broca’s)

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Sure utterances

agrammatic speech

effortful speech

good auditory comprehension

poor repetition

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Broca’s aphasia

Lesion site:

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Left lateral frontal lobe

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Nonspeech characteristics (Broca’s)

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Aware of deficits

Right sided weakness

Emotional lability

Dysarthria

Apraxia

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Strengths (Broca’s)

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▪ Can communicate efficiently (limited verbal output)
▪ Try hard / committed
▪ Meaningful

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Distinguishing characteristics (Broca’s)

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Agrammatic speech

good auditory comprehension

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Transcortical motor

lesion site:

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Area surrounding Brocas area

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Speech characteristics (transcortical motor)

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▪ Short utterances
▪ Echolalia
▪ Perseveration
▪ Good aud comp
▪ Good rep skills
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Nonspeech characteristics (transcortical motor)

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Motor disorders-upper extremity rigidity

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Distinguishing trait of transcortical motor:

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Good repetition skills

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Global aphasia

lesion site:

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Frontal, Temporel, and parietal lobe’s

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Speech characteristics (global)

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ Limited verbal output
▪ Poor reading and writing skills
▪ Poor aud comp
▪ Poor rep skills
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Nonspeech characteristics (global)

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Non-Speech Characteristics:
▪ Right hemi-paresis
▪ One-sided neglect

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Strengths (global)

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Strengths:
▪ Sense of humor
▪ Recognize faces
▪ Follow whole body commands
▪ Automatic tasks
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Distinguishing trait of global aphasia

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Generalized communication deficits that affect all areas of communication

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Transcortical mixed

lesions site:

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Disruption of blood flow to MCA

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Speech characteristics of transcortical mixed:

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ Looks like global aphasia
▪ Limited verbal output
▪ Echolalic
▪ Poor aud comp
▪ Good rep skills
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Strengths of transcortical mixed aphasics

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Good repetition skills

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Nonfluent aphasias:

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Brocas
Transcortical motor
Mixed transport kcal
Global

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Nonfluent aphasias:

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Wernickes
Transcortical sensory
Conduction
Anomie

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Wernickes

Lesion site:

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Superior temporal gyrus

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Speech characteristics (wernickes)

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ Jargon (empty speech)
▪ Neologisms
▪ Rapid rate of speech
▪ Poor aud comp
▪ Poor rep skills
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Nonspeech characteristics (wernickes)

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Unaware of deficits

isolated and depressed

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Strengths (wernickes)

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▪ Good comp of personally relevant info
▪ May be able to follow whole-body commands
▪ Maintain good syntactic agreement

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Transcortical sensory

lesion site:

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Temporoparietal region

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Speech characteristics (transcortical sensory)

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ Normal phrase length
▪ Empty speech
▪ Anomic and echolalic
▪ Can’t follow direction
▪ Poor aud comp
▪ Good rep skills
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Non-speech characteristics (transcortical sensory)

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Neglect to one side of the body

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Strength of transcortical sensory

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Good repetition skills

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Conduction aphasia

Lesion site:

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Arcuate fasciculus

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Speech characteristics (conduction)

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ CANNOT REPEAT
▪ Phonemic paraphasias
▪ Good spontaneous speech (better than rep)
▪ Good aud comp
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Strengths of conduction aphasia

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▪ Near-complete recovery

▪ Use gestures and intonation variation to supplement

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Distinguishing traits of conduction aphasia

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SEVERELY impaired Repetition skills

good auditory comprehension

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Anomic aphasia

lesion site:

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Angular gyrus

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Speech characteristics (anomic aphasia)

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Speech Characteristics:
▪ ANOMIA
▪ Circumlocutions
▪ Fluent, well-articulated speech
▪ Good aud comp
▪ Good rep skills
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Nonspeech characteristics (anomic aphasia)

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Associated with dementias

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Strengths of anomic aphasia

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Relatively intact language skills

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Distinguishing trait of anomic aphasia

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Severe naming deficit with preserved communication skills

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