Aphasia Terms Flashcards
Anomia
Word finding
Free-recall tasks
pull from memory, higher sequence processing
Generative Naming
word fluency or verbal fluency
Perservation
Inappropriate repetition or continuation of earlier responses after task requirements have changed.
Stuck-in-Set Perseveration
Stuck responding in that way
Continuous Perseveration
Someone has the same answer or category of answer over and over again, you don’t intervene
Recurrent Perseveration
Continue the same response even with new stimuli: Interrupt perseveration and redirect them
Localizationist-connectionist Model
Specific areas of the brain damaged
Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience
Huge brain networks for language
Fluent
production of nine words or more
Non-fluent
production of zero – five words
“Borderline fluent”
production of six – eight words
Obtain the average of the three longest meaningful utterances produced under three conditions of narrative discourse:
Response to an open-ended question
Description of a pictured scene
Response to a question of historical or emotional significance
Auditory Comprehension Tasks
Follow verbal single and multistep commands
Answer yes/no questions
Paragraph Length Material
Repetition Tasks
Single Words
Phrases
Sentences
Nonfluent Aphasias
Broca’s Aphasia
Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Mixed Aphasia
Global Aphasia
Fluent Aphasias
Wernicke’s Aphasia
Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
Conduction Aphasia
Anomic Aphasia
Acalculia
inability to perform arithmetic operations
Agnosia
inability to comprehend the meaning of a perceived stimulus
Agrammatism
a unique speech pattern with simplified formation of sentences (in which many or all function words- articles, prepositions, personal pronouns, verbal inflections are omitted
Anomia
difficulty retrieving specific words
Ataxia
discoordination of movement often associated with cerebellar disease
Circumlocution
an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech. In its most basic form, circumlocution is using many words (such as “a tool used for cutting things such as paper and hair”) to describe something for which a concise (and commonly known) expression exists (“scissors”).
Conduit d’ approche
repeated attempts come closer to target tendency, most evident in conduction aphasics, to make repeated attempts at a word (e.g., for pretzel, “trep . . . tretzle . . . trethle . . . tredfles . . . ki”) that do not necessarily result in closer approximations to the target. These attempts indicate that the patient knows what the word should sound like and is dissatisfied with his or her efforts.
