paraphasias/symptom terminology Flashcards
paraphasia
unintended utterances
phonemic/literal paraphasia
sound substitutions
pog/dog, log/dog
skissors for scissors
they laise good potatoes
semantic paraphasia
related word substitutions
cat/dog
random paraphasia
word substitutions that don’t make sense
“september” for “hungry”
“jumping” for “washing”
perservation
keep saying the same word, over and over
“Jesus man”
logorrhea/press of speech
talking and cannot stop, abnormal speech fluency (excessive speech output), rapid rate of speech
agrammatic/telegraphic speech
not using appropriate grammar, speech may be limited to just a few words,
saying 2-3 words at a time
“the boy is walking” –> “boy walk”
emotional lability
trigger of emotional feelings
cry more than they should
become emotional to a point where they usually cry
circumlocution
word retrieval difficulties, try to explain something but cannot get to the point, talking in circles
“it’s red and grows on trees” for “cherry”
neologism/neologistic jargon
making up words that have no meaning, not real words
“tember” for “happy”; “bannertime” for “soccer”
nonword, word, or phrase fillers
“I lost my, um… uh… wallet”
“I lost my… you know… wallet”
part-word, or phrase repetitions
“She went to the… the… the… islands”
silent pauses
“My… friend gave it to me”
false starts
“He had… the girl had the wrong number”
abandoned utterances
“Dylan was practicing for…”
