Communication and Special Care Dentistry Flashcards
1
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Communication Triangle
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7% words
38% tonality
55% physiology
2
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Deafblindness
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24,000 people in the UK
3
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Aphasia
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Damage to portions of the brain responsible for speech
4
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Global asphasia
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Most severe
little speech
cannot read or write
5
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Broca’s asphasia
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damage to frontal lobes
difficulty communicating thoughts, words and ideas
is and the omitted
6
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Wernicke’s aphasia
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Damage to temporal lobe causing individuals speaking in long sentences with no meaning
7
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Dysarthria
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Group of speech disorders resulting from neurogenic disturbances in muscular cotnrol