Chapter 4-5 Flashcards
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Aphasia therapy timeline includes
Spontaneous recovery- 6 months post onset
Individuals improve even with no intervention
Therapy facilitates even greater recovery
After stoke or other damage to the brain that produces aphasia, individuals experience a period of ____ that lasts approximately ____ ____ ___
After store or other damage to the brain that produces aphasia, individuals experience a period of spontaneous recovery that lasts approximately 6 months post onset
During aphasia therapy, individuals with aphasia _____ to some degree even with ___ _____
During aphasia therapy, individuals with aphasia improve to some degree even with no intervention
Therapy for aphasia during this time of spontaneous recovery facilities even greater levels of recovery and cues further improvement past the level achieved with spontaneous recovery alone
Three types of aphasia therapy approaches
- Restorative
- Compensatory
- Social therapy
____ is meant to help a patient regain lost ability by reducing actual levels of deficits
Restorative therapy
The ability of a part of the brain to change its previous function and to take on and learn a new and previously unknown role
Neuroplasticity
____ is central to the concept of restorative therapy
Neuroplasticity
Hidred Schuell speech language pathologist who pioneered the idea that with appropriate ____ individuals with ____ can ____ ____ ___
Hidred Schuell speech language pathologist who pioneered the idea that with appropriate intervention individuals with aphasia can regain lost abilities
Neuroplascitiy is central to the concept of ____
Restorative therapy
Restorative therapy is meant to help a patient _____ by reducing ____ ____ of ____
Is meant to help a patient regain lost ability by reducing actual levels of deficit.
Which speech language pathologist pioneered the idea that with appropriate intervention individuals with aphasia can regain lost abilities
Hildred schuell
This approach focuses on using the auditory modality of language to restimulate the acquisition of language in other modalities
Schuells stimulation approach
4 examples of therapy tasks used in schuells stimulation approach:
- Point-to tasks
- Following directions with objects
- Yes/no questions
- Paraphrasing/retelling
The schuells stimulation approach focuses on using the ___ _____ of ____ to ____ the ___ of _____ in other ___.
The stimulation approach focuses on using the auditory modality of language to restimulate the acquisition of language in other modalities.
During these tasks, the speech language pathologist asks the patient to point to something or to many things sequentially.
Point-to tasks
The higher the verbal comprehension level of the patient, the point-to utterance he should be able to understand and hold in memory long enough to complete.
Higher the ____ ___, the ____, more ____ the utterance should be.
Higher the verbal comprehension the longer more complex the utterance should be.
Schuells stimulation approach therapy tasks can be completed with no verbal language. True or false
True
Schuells stimulation approach can be completed with no ___ ____.
Can be completed with no verbal language.
Questions that require a simple yes or no response from the patient are classic tasks of aphasia therapy
Yes/no questions
In these tasks, the patient must retell a story or paraphrase a paragraph that she read quietly to herself or heard read aloud by the speech-language pathologist
Paraphrasing/retelling
The speech language pathologist gives the patient a simple task, such as “pick up the flashlight”, progressing to more difficult tasks, such as “pick up the flashlight and put in soon beside the mirror after i touch the pencil.”
Following directions with objects
In paraphrasing/ retelling, comprehend the material, remember, and find the words to communicate the meaning appropriately.