Exam 4 Part 5 Flashcards
What is an example of informal assessment of producing prosody?
Listening to connected speech and finding abnormalities of monotone, ask patient to vary prosody
What is an example of informal assessment of inferencing?
Asking “It is snowing; the kids are wearing heavy coats. What season is it?” or, for instance, a Norman Rockwell painting
What is an example of informal assessment of discourse?
Observe and record patient as they communicate with others, engaging in conversation with patient and observing abnormalities
Patient must circle or cross out certain stimuli on a page
Cancellation task
Patient puts a mark in the center of a long horizontal line
Line bisection
Patient copies drawing of house, flower, clock, tree
Copying line drawings
Patients must evenly distribute blocks within a baking pan
Baking pan task
What is an example of observing neglect in ADL?
Shaving, putting on makeup, walking, navigating
What is an example of informal testing for sustained attention?
Sort cards into suits or colors without any competing stimuli?
What is an example of informal testing for selective attention?
Sort cards into suits or color with radio as competing stimuli
What is an example of informal testing for alternating attention?
Sort cards by suit and when given a cue, shift to sort cards by color or number and then back to sort by suit
What is an example of informal testing for divided attention?
Sort cards in a certain way while simultaneously attending to a short story and answer questions as the sorting is completed
What does formal assessment of RHD test for?
Humor, metaphor, sarcasm, facial expression, prosody
Good for assessing aspects of language not typically addressed in aphasia tests
Formal assessment
What are some examples of formal assessment of RHD?
Right Hemisphere Language Battery, Mini Inventory of Right Brain Injury, Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders of Dementia
