finals Flashcards
what is a disorder
abnormal performance level
what is a acquired disorder
- a cognitive abnormality in someone who acquired a particular skill normally but then lost that ability after brain damage
what is a developmental disorder
- a cognitive abnormality in someone (often a child) who never acquired a particular skill normally in the first place
what does the cognitive level provide?
- cognitive level provides an important explanatory link between brain and behaviour
- explains what the brain is trying to achieve in functional terms (not structural)
what do cognitive models do?
whicih specirfiy the sequence of processes involved in perforning some cognitive operation
what is acquired dyslexia
- a reading impairment in someone who learned to read normally but then lost that ability after brain damage
what is developmental dyslexia
- a reading impairment in someone (often a child) who never learned to read normally in the first place
what percentage of children fail to who earn to read
10-15%
dyslexia myths
- all are male
- all are average or above average intelligence
- all come from middle class families
- all suffer from attention disorders (comorbidity – overlap only 30-40% many don’t have attention disorders)
- all get their letters back to front
- all have the same type of dyslexia
lis teht three stages of reading develpoment
logographic
alphabeetic
orthographic
characteristics of the logographic stage
– small sight vocabulary of known words
cant attempt unfamiliar words
- as number of words increase, problems occur
ages of logographic
4-5yrs
ages of alphabetic stage
5-7
charactierstics of alphabetic stage
- acquire “phonic” knowledge – sound out
- attempt to pronounce words not seen before
though not necessarinlhy correctly
e.g. yatched for yacht - reading may feedback to spoken vocab
I’m thoroughly enjoying myself
characteristics of the orthographic
- read words as whole units, without sounding out
- not visual or cue-based like logographic phase
- rapid recognition of familiar letter strings
ages fo the orthographic stage
7-8+
what are the two key processes of dyslexia
-sounding out or non lexical skills
-whole word or lexical skills
what is involved in the key process of “sounding out/non lexical skills “
- reads new words and nonsense words (e.g. gop)
- mistakes with irregular words (e.g. yacht)
what is involved in the key process of “whole word or lexical skills’
- reads all familiar words, including irregular
- cant read new words or nonsense words
what is the nature of the problem of surface dyslexia
Nature of the problem: poor whole word or lexical reading i.e. small sight vocabulary – written word store
what is the key symptoms of surfsce dyslexia
Key symptom: inaccurate reading aloud of irregular words e.g. have, yacht
what is the nature of the problem of phonological dyslexia
poor knowledgee of letter-sounf rules, poor non lexical reading
explain the identification of assessment in phonological dyslexia
Identification in assessment: inaccurate reading aloud of nonsense words such as ib, slint or stendle
what is the nature of the problem of hyperlexia
Nature of the problem: accuracy in reading aloud of single words and nonwords normal for age but single word reading comprehension is poor – word meaning store
what is the identification in assessment of hyperlexia
Identification in assessment: many words that can be read aloud correclty cannot be understood (neither from print nor speech)
what is the nature of the problem in LETTER IDENTIFICATION DYSLEXIA
Nature of the problem: some or many single letters cannot be identified – letter recognition
what is the identification in assessment of LETTER IDENTIFICATION DYSLEXIA
Identification in assessment: inaccurate naming of single letteres. poor ability to match a ore to A
what is the nature of the problem in letter posiiton dyslexia
Nature of the problem: letters are identified accurately but their position
within the word is not.
what is the identification in assessment of LETTER POSITION DYSLEXIA
Identification in assessment: errors in reading aloud migratable words,
such as board – “broad”, nerve – “never
treatments for surface dyslexia
- Basic flashcards, focussing on irregular words
treatments for phonological dyslexia
- Wealth of phonics training programs
treatments for letter identifcation dyslexia
- Letter training programs like “Letterland” (
treatments for letter position dyslexia
- Following with finger may help
what is aphasia
A disorder of language acquired as a result of brain damage
difficulties in aphasia
- speaking
- writing
- understanding speech
- understanding written text (reading for meaning)
- reading aloud
- repeating what is said
- gesturing
what causes aphasia
- damage to those areas of the brain that control language
- typically the temporo-parietal region of the left hemisphere
- most people with aphasia have it as a result of stroke (cerebro-vascular accident)
- blockage or haemorrhage of a blood vessel
when can progressive apahsia occur
- aphasia can occur in progressive e brain disease (dementias)
- e.g. alzheimer’s disease
how can aphasia impact youre life
- Social isolation and exclusion (relationships are hard to maintain)
- Loss of work (financial hardship)
- Loss of leisure opportunities
- Lack of access to information
- Loss of opportunities to participate, negotiate, choose.
- Loss of confidence, bewilderment
- Anger, frustration.
prognosis of aphasia
- Most people with aphasia show improvement over time
- Most rapid improvement is in the first 3 months but can continue indefinitely.
- Aphasia can be treated – but there is no ‘magic bullet’
- Speech pathologists tailor treatment individually
- Treatment can be required for many years (and continues to be effective many years after the onset of aphasia).
- Many people with aphasia do not get back to ‘normal’.
- Nevertheless it is possible to live successfully with aphasia
if someone has good comphrension and non-fluent speech with little grammaticial structure
= Broca’s Aphasia
if someone has poor comphrension and fluent speech
Wernicke’s Aphasia
what are the three causes in identifying the case of language symptoms
what tasks people have problems with (e.g. naming pictures, reading words, writing, repeating words, understanding a word, understanding a sentence
2. what errors do they make?
3. what influences whether they make an error or not?
why is it important to understnad the anture of the impairments in aphasia
the same problem can have different causes
different causes need different treatments
what are semantic errors
- responses related to the target in meaning
e.g. semantic errors
- e.g. triangle square, saxophone soul, brush comb
what are phonologial errors
- responses that share sounds with the target
e.g. of phonological error
- e.g. triangle trifle, saxophone sakserfay, elephant efelent, paper pater
what are unrelated errors
- responses unrelated to the target in meaning or sound
e.g. of unrelated errors
- nonwords (neologisms) – e.g. tweezer bredel, saxophone helifunt
- words – e.g. frog hunk
what are visual errors
- naming as a visually similar object
e.g. ofo visual errors
pretzel knot, button moon
what is circumlocution
- taking around the subject, giving information about its meaning
e.g. o circumlocation
- e.g. calendar it’s a thing that tells you what day it is, rocket it’s a space vehicle, triangle it’s a three something
what are perservation
getting stuck on the same response
e.g. perseveration
- e.g. cat sandwich; house 00> sandwich; tree sandwich; cat cat; house house; tree cat
what are the two possible levels of impairment in spoke word production can cause semantic errors
- impaired word meanings – semantic impairment
- impaired word forms (or impaired access to those forms)
explain the issues that may be present in impaired word meaning - semantic impairments
there will also be problems with writing, understanding spoken words (listening comprehension) and understanding written words (reading comphrension)
explain the issues that may be present in impaired word forms -
written, understanding spoken words (listening comprehensoin) and understanding written words (reading comphrensioin) will be unimpaired