Exam 1 Part 18

Question 1

The basic information you need to know for a patient (name, date, occupation, site of lesion, address)

Answer 1

Demographic information

Question 2

Taking on a new type of behavior to communicate to compensate for their communicative loss

Answer 2

Compensatory strategies

Question 3

Cognition, _____, and _____ are intertwined

Answer 3

Language and communication

Question 4

What types of deficits are almost universally present in those with aphasia?

Answer 4

Cognitive

Question 5

How well you are likely to be recovered

Answer 5

Prognosis

Question 6

Spontaneous is up to ___ months post onset

Answer 6

Six

Question 7

Therapy during aphasia will facilitate _______ recovery

Answer 7

Spontaneous recovery

Question 8

What are the 3 types of therapy approaches?

Answer 8

Restorative, compensatory, social

Question 9

Ability of the brain to change itself to take on new functions; ability of part of the brain to change its own function to compensate for damage to another part of the brain

Answer 9

Neuroplasticity

Question 10

Reestablish lost language abilities by using auditory stimuli to evoke a response; Point-to tasks, following directions with objects, yes/no questions, paraphrasing/retelling

Answer 10

Schuell’s stimulation therapy

Question 11

Uses intact melodic/prosodic processing of the right hemisphere to cue word retrieval in the left hemisphere

Answer 11

Melodic intonation therapy

Question 12

Combats learned nonuse

Answer 12

Constraint induced therapy

Question 13

Avoids the practicing of errors

Answer 13

Errorless learning

Question 14

Strategies that focus on helping patients function despite their deficits

Answer 14

Compensatory strategies

Question 15

What are some types of compensatory strategies?

Answer 15

AAC