Aphasia pt 2 Flashcards
what is the auditory comprehension task
can the person select appropriate items, answer yes or no questions, and/or follow commands
pure word deafness
auditory verbal agnosia
person hears the word but cannot tell you the meaning of the word
inability to comprehend speech
agraphia
loss ability to write
pure agraphia
agraphia is the only communication deficit resulting from focal lesion
paragraphias
incorrect spelling errors caused by brain damage
alexia
disorder reading that affects reading aloud
understanding the meaning of written words
or both
parietal agraphia
alexia w agraphia
most common reading/writing disorder together
when is parietal agraphia prominent
after damage to left angular gyrus
alexia without agraphia
pure word blindness
pt can write spontaneously and to dictation but cannot read
response dynamism
utterances that are uncontrolled
spontaneous conversation
stereotypy
short utterance used exclusively in all speaking attempts it can be a word of a phrase
monoaphasia
when a pt only has one word available
verbal perseveration
word or phrase temporarily becomes the response to all stimuli
at the outset of this period, the response was appropriate to a particular stimulus
pallilalia
unhibited repetition of ones own utterances
echolalia
uninhibited repetition of anothers utterances
when u have brocas aphasia where is the lesion at
posterior inferior frontal gyru in L hemisphere
broca’s is characterized by
- awkward articulation
- restricted vocab
- restriction to simple grammatical forms in presence of a relative preservation of auditory comprehension
- writing mirrors speech
- reading less impaired
when u have wernickes aphasia where is the lesion at
posterior superior temporal gyrus
wernickes is characterized by
- impaired auditory comprehension and fluently articulated speech marked by word subs
- reading and writing severely impaired
- speech produced at greater rate
- production of speech is precise
jargon aphasia
- speech is incomprehensible but appears to make sense to the individual
- replace a word with another that sounds or looks like the original, or some connection
what is jargon aphasia usually associated with
wernickes
what is this an example of: potatoe gropes the long table
semantics
what is this an example of: limpoo baroo geep ir manu “ points to salt”
neologism
anomic aphasia
word finding difficulty within fluent speech
conduction aphasia
main impairment is in the inability to repeat words or phrases
- associative aphasia
if u have conduction aphasia where is the lesion
arcuate fasiciulus
- often observed in L temporal lobe in the auditory association area
global aphasia
no language modalities at all
transcortical aphasia
any aphasic syndrome whose lesion falls outside of the perisylvian area
transcortical motor aphasia
nonfluent speech with greater effort required than brocas
repetition and comprehension intact
transcortical sensory aphasia
fluent speech marked with paraphasias with semantic and neologistic subs, poor comprehension and good reps
mixed transcortical aphasia
- surrounding areas around brocas and wernickes are damaged –> isolates them
- severe disordered language except in repetition
- echolalia
what is the common cause of mixed transcortical aphasia
- watershed stroke of the language association areas as a result of internal carotid stenosis
dysarthria
impairments of speech production resulting from damage to the central or peripheral nervous system, causing weakness, paralysis or incoordination of motor speech system
anarthria
speech completely unintelligible
apraxia of speech
impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands necessary for directing movements that result in phonetically and prosodically normal speech
dysphagia
swallowing disorder due to medical condition in oral cavity, pharynx or larynx
