Cognitive communication

Question 1

What is the purpose of treatment for cognitive communication disorders?

Answer 1

to restore function; to compensate for deficits; to educate the client and caregiver

Question 2

What is a cognitive communication disorder?

Answer 2

a problem with the system used for cognition (i.e., to get, deal with it, and use facts and observation)

Question 3

What are cognitive communication skills?

Answer 3

attention; memory; problem-solving; executive functioning; perception; numeracy; visuoconstructional abilities; spatial awareness; information processing; reasoning

Question 4

A person with a cognitive communication disorder may exhibit which symptoms?

Answer 4

Cannot participate in conversation because they forget what someone tells them or they struggle to say what they think.
They don’t use language appropriately in certain social situations.
They struggle to remember their conversations and experiences.
They struggle to read/write.
They struggle to understand jokes, television, and presentations.

Question 5

What causes cognitive communication disorders?

Answer 5

an injury to the brain

Question 6

What are ways to help a person with a cognitive communication disorder?

Answer 6

Write down important information
Speak clearly and use as few words as possible
Break down directions into small steps
Double check information they share with you, because they may misconstrue details with you
Sit on their right side if they have a left side neglect
Sit in front of them and look at their face when you speak to them

Question 7

Long term memory can be separated into two types of memories:

Answer 7

explicit or conscious or declarative memory and implicit or unconscious or non-declarative memory

Question 8

Explicit memory, a type of long term memory, can be split into

Answer 8

episodic (events that happened to you) and semantic (knowledge of the world)

Question 9

Implicit or unconscious memory, a type of long term memory, can be split into

Answer 9

procedural (knowing how to do something) and priming (cues)

Question 10

What are the steps taken to store a memory?

Answer 10

Information is encoded (changed into a code) by the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe —> information is stored in the hippocampus as short term memory –> Information is consolidated into the neorcortex as long term memory (four lobes of the brain) —-Information is stored into the neocortex