MSA #3

Question 1

What is associated with cleft lip and palate?

Answer 1

1) Dental issues
2) Middle ear infections
3) Feeding problems

Question 2

What is “an excessive and undesirable amount go perceived nasal cavity resonance during speech”?

Answer 2

Hyper nasality

Question 3

What is “a reduction in nasal resonance during speech”?

Answer 3

Hypo nasality/ Densality

Question 4

Compensatory articulation errors that children with clefts make

Answer 4

1) Glottal stops

2) Pharyngeal fricatives

Question 5

What is included in the “Rule of 10”?

Answer 5

1) 10 grams of hemoglobin
2) 10 pounds in weight
3) 10 weeks in age

Question 6

What is the surgical repair of cleft palate called?

Answer 6

Palatoplasty

Question 7

What is “a computer-based instrument that measures the relative amount of nasal acoustic energy in a person’s speech”?

Answer 7

Nasometer

Question 8

What is a speech appliance that covers “an open palatal defect”?

Answer 8

Palatal obturator

Question 9

What is a speech appliance “that fills in the pharyngeal space for speech”

Answer 9

Speech bulb obturator

Question 10

Three things that can cause a neurological communication disorder

Answer 10

1) Traumatic brain injury
2) Stroke
3) Tumor

Question 11

Aphasia is…

Answer 11

… a deficit in language processing

Question 12

Receptive aphasia

Answer 12

Having trouble understanding auditory or reading information

Question 13

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 13

Not a type of fluent aphasia

Question 14

Transcortical sensory aphasia

Answer 14

Fluent aphasia

Question 15

Global aphasia

Answer 15

a severe to profound form of aphasia characterized by severely impaired receptive and expressive language

Question 16

Anomia

Answer 16

impaired ability to retrieve the names of things

Question 17

Agrammatism

Answer 17

an impairment of the ability to produce words in their correct sequence and with all necessary morphemes

Question 18

Verbal paraphasia

Answer 18

• word substitution

- saying “sister” instead of “brother”

Question 19

Litteral paraphasia

Answer 19

• sound substitution

- saying “tar” instead of “car”

Question 20

Divided attention

Answer 20

responding simultaneously to more than one task

Question 21

Orientation

Answer 21

1) Person – who the person is and what he is doing
2) Place – where the person is and the surrounding environment
3) Time – month, season, year, time of day, etc.
4) Purpose – understanding and reasoning about why something is occurring/ has happened

Question 22

Selective attention

Answer 22

“attending to specific stimuli and ignoring others.”

Question 23

Alternating attention

Answer 23

“shifting focus of attention between tasks”

Question 24

Sustained attention

Answer 24

attention “to a task for a reasonable length of time”

Question 25

Anosognosia

Answer 25

• Being unaware of your deficits

- “Impairment of an individual’s ability to relate to parts of his body

Question 26

Preservation

Answer 26

“An automatic and often involuntary continuation of a thought or behavior after it is no longer appropriate.”

Question 27

Dementia

Answer 27

“A medical team from a syndrome caused by a progressive neurological disease that involves intellectual, cognitive, communicative, behavioral, and personality deterioration that is more severe than what would occur through normal aging.”

Question 28

Stage 1 Alzheimer’s

Answer 28

• impaired working memory
• difficulty completing familiar tasks
• difficulty remembering common names
• misplacing items in inappropriate places
• disorientation to place, time, and purpose

Question 29

Stage 2 Alzheimer’s

Answer 29

• increased loss of working memory
• significantly diminished vocabulary
• conversation is empty and meaningless
• loss of reading and writing ability
• difficulty with tasks that require skilled movements
• aggressiveness
• outbursts of anger

Question 30

Stage 3 Alzheimer’s

Answer 30

• little or no memory
• difficulty speaking and understanding simple sentences
• expresses little or no emotion
• minimal verbal discourse
• difficulty recognizing others and sometimes himself in a mirror
• needs personal care
• difficulty chewing or swallowing

Question 31

Prosopangnosia

Answer 31

Difficulty recognizing familiar faces

Question 32

How many types of dysarthria are there?

Answer 32

6

Question 33

Dysarthria is…

Answer 33

… a group of motor speech disorders causes by weakness, paralysis, or incoordination of the speech muscles

Question 34

Associated with dysarthria

Answer 34

1) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
2) Multiple sclerosis
3) Myasthenia gravis
4) Parkinson’s disease

Question 35

Apraxia of speech is…

Answer 35

…a problem in neural motor planning and programming of the articulatory muscles for the voluntary movements of speech in the absence of weakness.

Question 36

Dysphasia

Answer 36

Difficulty swallowing

Question 37

Aspiration

Answer 37

When food or liquid enters the larynx, trachea, or lungs

Question 38

Mastication

Answer 38

medical term for the process of chewing

Question 39

Oral preparatory

Answer 39

the phase in normal swallowing in which chewing takes place

Question 40

Pharyngeal

Answer 40

• the phase of the normal swallow in which contraction of muscles in the pharynx takes place
• the phase in which aspiration usually takes place
• lasts 1 second

Question 41

Esophageal

Answer 41

the phase of the normal swallow in which contraction of the esophageal muscles takes place