CLINICAL TEACHING and TEACHING SPECIAL POPULATION

Question 1

Habilitation – activities and interactions that enable an
individual with a disability to develop new abilities to
achieve his or her maximum potential

Question 2

Rehabilitation – relearning of previous skills, which often
requires an adjustment to altered functional abilities and
altered lifestyle

Question 3

• Three basic types of hearing loss:

–usually correctable and
causes reduction in the ability to hear faint noises

Answer 3

o Conductive hearing loss

Question 4

• Three basic types of hearing loss:

– combination of conductive
and sensorineural losses

Answer 4

Mixed hearing loss

Question 5

• Three basic types of hearing loss:
  – permanent and
  caused by damage to the cochlea or nerve pathways
  that transmit sound; sometimes referred to as nerve
  deafness; not only results in a reduction in sound
  level but also leads to difficulty in hearing certain
  sounds

Answer 5

o Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 6

• Most prevalent eye diseases. Deterioration of
  macula, the central area of retina, results in an
  area of decreased central vision. Peripheral
  and side vision remains unaffected

Answer 6

Macular Degeneration

Question 7

An opacity in the lens which results in
diminished acuity but does not affect the field
of vision. There are no blind spots, but the
person’s view is hazy overall, particularly in
glaring light

Answer 7

Cataract

Question 8

• Chronic elevated eye pressure in susceptible
  individuals may cause atrophy of the optic
  nerve and loss of peripheral vision. Early
  detection and close medical monitoring can
  help reduce complications.

Answer 8

o Glaucoma

Question 9

• Leaking of retinal blood vessels in advanced
  or long-term diabetes can affect the macula or
  the entire retina and vitreous, producing
  blinding areas

Answer 9

Diabetic Retinopathy

Question 10

• characterized
  by slow and
  inaccurate
  word
  recognition
• associated
  with reading
  difficulty
• deficit in
  “working” or
  “short-term
  memory”

Answer 10

Dyslexia

Question 11

umbrella term
used to
describe a
condition that
causes
listening
difficulties
despite
normal or
near normal
hearing
acuity
* characterized
by the
inability to
distinguish
subtle
differences in
sounds

Answer 11

Auditory
Processing
Disorder

Question 12

severe
learning
ability that
impairs those
parts of the
brain
involved in
mathematical
processing –
inability to
understand
abstract
concepts
associated
with numbers

Answer 12

Dyscalculia

Question 13

impairment of language, affecting the production or
comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write

Answer 13

C1. Aphasia

Question 13

types of aphasia

– most severe form; produce
deficits in both the ability to speak and understand
language as well as to read and write

Answer 13

Global aphasia –

Question 14

types of aphasia

– having difficulty conveying
their thoughts, speaking haltingly, and using
sentences consisting of a few disjointed words, but
they understand what is being said to them

Answer 14

Expressive aphasia –

Question 15

types of aphasia

– damage to Wernicke’s area of
the temporal lobe and affects auditory and reading
comprehension

Answer 15

Receptive aphasia

Question 16

types of aphasia

– understand what is being said to
them and can speak in full sentences, but they have
difficulty finding the right noun or verb to convey their
thought; circumlocution

Answer 16

Anomic aphasia

Question 17

neuro-motor disorder caused by damage to the nerves or
muscles associated with eating and speaking (tongue,
mouth, larynx, vocal cords)

Answer 17

C2. Dysarthria

Question 18

– have memory until the
brain injury but are unable to form memories in the
present

Answer 18

Anterograde Amnesia