Exam 4 Part 6

Question 1

Teach patients to produce facial expressions reflecting their true emotional state

Answer 1

Treatment to improve facial expression

Question 2

When do we not use expression therapy?

Answer 2

Patients who are severely affected, those with emotional disorders such as depression

Question 3

Educate patients on the use of prosody and teach to explicitly communicate their emotional state to their family

Answer 3

Treatment to improve prosodic deficits

Question 4

What is an example of prosodic deficit treatment?

Answer 4

Read a short story and then be cued to produce the final quote by a character with appropriate emotional prosody

Question 5

Discriminate changes in pitch or prosody by listening to SLP produce the same utterance multiple times with varied (or not varied) prosody

Answer 5

Treatment to improve facial comprehension

Question 6

Increase the patient’s awareness of listener’s needs, social conventions and expectations, and increasing theory of mind (seeing things from another point of view)

Answer 6

Treatment to improve discourse deficits

Question 7

What are other examples of treatment to improve discourse deficits?

Answer 7

Present stories/pictures and make up appropriate titles for it, use of Norman Rockwell illustrations to put together appropriate clues and details to reduce inferencing deficits and improve use of inferencing during discourse

Question 8

Teach the patient overt rules of social interactions, ask the patient to view and analyze the prerecorded actions among individuals

Answer 8

Treatment to improve pragmatic deficits

Question 9

What are other examples of treatment to improve pragmatic deficits?

Answer 9

Applying appropriate social cues during conversation (eye contact, turn taking, topic maintenance)

Question 10

Give task that requires shift of attention toward/into neglected space for completion; relies on heavy cueing

Answer 10

Visual scanning therapy to improve neglect

Question 11

True or false: in visual scanning therapy, there is poor generalization to activities of daily living due to cueing

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Flat container with raised edges (baking pan) and small blocks are used for patient to find blocks spread across the pan

Answer 12

Edgeness to improve neglect

Question 13

What neglect therapy has better generalization?

Answer 13

Edgeness

Question 14

Patient must maintain attention long enough to successfully complete the task

Answer 14

Sorting task to improve sustained attention deficits

Question 15

A paper and pencil task where the patient must connect randomly printed stimuli in sequential order

Answer 15

Trailmaking task to improve sustained attention deficits