Right Hemisphere Disorder Terms/ect.

Question 1

RHD 3 Characteristics

Answer 1

1. Non-linguistic
2. Extra-linguistic
3. Linguistic

Question 2

non-linguistic

Answer 2

neglect
Anosognosia
Attention
Orientation
Visuospatial
Prosopagnosia

Question 3

Extra-linguistic

Answer 3

Impulsivity
Emotion
Prosody
Inference
Discourse
Figurative Language
Humor
Pragmatics

Question 4

Linguistic

Answer 4

Auditory Comp
Word Fluency
Writing
Conversational Discourse
Confabulation

Question 5

Neglect

Answer 5

fails to recognize
one side of the body
the environmental space

Question 6

Anosognosia

Answer 6

Unable to become aware of deficit
“lack of insight”

Question 7

Attention

Answer 7

Affects all aspects of communication and functioning
Impacts memory function
Difficulty with sustained attention and selective attention

Question 8

Orientation

Answer 8

Oriented to person and place usually, but may be disoriented to time (be reasonable in your assessment of day, date, time of day)

Question 9

Visuospatial

Answer 9

Difficulty processing visual stimuli

Question 10

Prosopagnosia

Answer 10

inability to recognize familiar faces
Not a deficit due to a vision problem, but a perceptual and integration problem
Can describe the face, but does not recognize it as familiar

Question 11

Impulsivity

Answer 11

Frontal lobe damage
Executive function
Individuals that have to have a clear clinical space
Dont have papers, pencils, grabbing

Question 12

Emotion

Answer 12

Difficult time understanding someone else’s emotion
Over demonstration of emotion
Miss pragmatic cues (don’t understand someone is mad)

Question 13

Prosody

Answer 13

How things are said
Sarcasm
(tone in which you are saying it)

Question 14

Inference

Answer 14

This is in everything (memes)
Have to understand the context

Question 15

Inference

Answer 15

This is in everything (memes)
Have to understand the context

Question 16

Flat affect

Answer 16

Decreased range in use of facial expressions
Decreased variability of inflection, pitch and stress. Robot-like.
Experience emotion, but don’t convey it

Question 17

Aprosodia

Answer 17

Flat contour or monotone
Failure to identify emotional tone in mundane sentences
Unable to detect happy, sad or angry faces

Question 18

Literal interpretations

Answer 18

comprehend only the literal meaning of language
often fail to understand many jokes, metaphors, irony, sarcasm, and common sayings that include figurative language

Question 19

Relevant vs. Irrelevant

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Fail to get big picture of story or conversation
Difficulty distinguishing between important and irrelevant information

Question 20

RHD

Answer 20

difficulty recognizing emotion or humor in pictured scenes; unlike aphasics!

Question 21

Metaphor Comprehension

Answer 21

“Metaphor is a pragmatic convention used for studying comprehensions of speaker-meaning that differs from literal content” (Marquart, 2000)
Inference is presumed to be a necessity

Interpreting idioms like “bury the hatchet” or “shoot the bull”

Question 22

Discourse

Answer 22

RHDs recall main ideas better than details and explicit information

Tend to “miss the point”

Question 23

Common Linguistic Deficits

Answer 23

Body part naming
Auditory comp of complex information
Word fluency (name as many…..as you can)
Writing

Question 24

Discourse: Conversation

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Turn taking, initiation and closure
May dominate conversation due to verbosity
Presupposition errors- fail to estimate shared knowledge and don’t give enough info on the topic

Question 25

Discourse: Confabulation

Answer 25

Give information that is untrue; his response to his own confusion, not intended to intentionally mislead listener