Midterm Flashcards
Cognitive Communication Disorder (5)
Any difficulty with any aspect of communication that is affected by disruption of cognition. Communication may be nonverbal, including listening, reading, writing, speaking,and gesturing. Disruption of cognitive processes such as attention, perception, memory, organization, and executive functioning. Affected areas could include behavioral regulation, social interaction, activities of daily living, learning ability, vocational and academic performance. They may be congenital or acquired.
SLP History with Cognitive Communication
We have not been working with this population long. It was officially embraced by ASHA in 2005.
Dementia (4)
Is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain. Individuals with dementia have significantly impaired intellectual functioning, problem solving, and emotional control. They may experience personality changes, and behavioral agitations such as hallucinations and delusions. Must have two factors from the following memory, language skills, perception, cognitive skills (reasoning and judgement).
Normal Aging and Language Changes (6)
Decreased response speed. Longer storytelling. Presbycusis. Attention and working memory is less for acontextual information. No procedural, episodic, or problem solving defects. Have become better at synthesizing and integrating the knowledge they already have.
Normal Aging
Aging that occurs free of a disease process.
Dying
Physical breakdown of the body that cannot be treated and is not related to a disease process. General deterioration process (ie dying) is said to take five years.
Disease Process
Symptoms caused by a disease that can theoretically be cured or treated.
Early Alzheimer’s Disease (4)
Memory of new information is impaired as is word recall for uncommon words and not often used names. Decline in judgment. Small erratic changes in behavior and possibly depressions. Intact syntax and same basic personality.
Middle Alzheimer’s Disease (7)
More memory difficulty. Language breakdown begins. Trouble with ADL. Hallmark symptom is getting lost going familiar places or in ones own home. Paranoia may be a symptom or a reaction to the condition. General disorientation to time or place is common. Ability to express complex thoughts and follow complex arguments may be affected.
Late Alzheimer’s Disease (6)
Motor system deterioration, insufficient or small amounts of language, oral stage dysphagia, loss of interaction with others, loss of bladder control, severe memory loss (such as who family members are). Think Patty.
Late Late Alzheimer’s Disease (4)
Become mute, no personal care, poor eating and dysphagia. No personal awareness.
Attention (5)
Focused, sustained, selective, alternating, divided.
Focused Attention (5)
Purposeful attention to stimuli. Poor in aphasic individuals. Attending to eye contact in conversation. When you cannot attend you are not processing any information because the information does not reach your parietal lobe. Is the most basic type of attention.
Sustained Attention (3)
Attention over an extended amount of time, generally 5-10 seconds. More emotionally salient activities will help individuals focus attention. After head injury individuals may have trouble with this type of attention and fatigue early.
Selective Attention (3)
Ability of an individual to focus with competing stimuli. Heart of the problem in individuals with ADD. In therapy bring in distractions to facilitate crossover into everyday life.
Alternating Attention (2)
Ability to switch attention between two different tasks. Driving-requires looking at speed, mirrors, listening to radio, talking to passengers.
Divided Attention
Attending to two tasks at the same time.
Executive Functioning (4)
Anticipation, planning, execution, self monitoring.
Anticipation (7)
Including setting realistic goals, understanding consequences, realizing challenges, and opportunities, understanding what can wrong, and what to do about it, and being able to visualize success.
Planning (5)
What you need to complete the task and in what order, timeline and estimation for each step, what other individuals do you need to complete the step.
Execution (6)
Initiation of action, monitoring compared to plan and predetermined timeline, flexibility for different outcomes, vigilance, selective attention, and attention to detail.
Self Monitoring (6)
Monitoring timeline, emotional and impulse control, recognition of errors, repair or mistakes, monitoring cues from the environment, insight level to success.
Problem Solving (2)
How to modify your speech if someone does not understand the message you are sending. Generally problem solve by self talk.
Reasoning (3)
Making sense of things, applying logic, changing beliefs based on new information.
Pragmatics (7)
Rules of social language, such as eye contact, body distance, informal and formal style and appropriate use, turn taking, topic maintenance, suppression of expressions, appropriate use of facial expression and body language.
Discourse (4)
The symbolic communication systems used in different settings. Greatly affected by culture, Highly dependent on the right hemisphere to understand overall context, meaning, intent, and insight. Absence of discourse rules makes individuals ineffective communicators.
Learned Helplessness-Lab Model
Exposure to a series of unforeseen adverse situations give rise to a sense of helplessness or inability to cope with or devise ways to escape such situations even when escape is possible.
Learned Helplessness-Geiratrics
A state of over dependency discordant with the degree of physical and mental disability only seen in nursing home patients. Patients appear less capable than they are for attention.
Learned Helplessness- Psychiatry
A state in which a person attempts to maintain a relationship with another by adopting a state of helplessness.
Pre Frontal and Memory
Attached to attention and memory.
Pre Motor and Memory
Attached to motor memory.
Broca’s and Memory
Memory for sounds of speech, whole words, and syntax.
Motor Cortex and Memory
What muscles need to be activated to produce a motor goal.
Parietal Anterior and Memory
Tactile memories.
Parietal Posterior
World knowledge. Factual-left. Global-right.
Occipital
Visual recognition and facial expression.
Temporal
Word and sound recognition. Where Wernicke’s is.
Limbic
Emotional memories.