SLP215 Final

Question 1

techniques when treating adults

Answer 1

Tell them what they are doing and why,
provide concrete feedback,
tell the person what they are doing a great job at, provide feedback for errors,
with adults progress its own reward.

Question 2

Aphasia

Answer 2

is a language disorder due to damage to the left hemisphere most often due to stroke

Question 3

Nonfluent aphasias

Answer 3

Broca’s: production impaired but comprehension intact. Difficulties in articulation

Question 4

Fluent aphasias

Answer 4

Wernicke’s - fluent but nonsensical words, difficulty with auditory of verbal comprehension, poor repetition

Question 5

Anomic aphasia

Answer 5

is also fluent aphasia (cannot name objects, can comprehend speech and ave fluent speech.

Question 6

Pure aphasias

Answer 6

selective impairments in reading and writing like agraphica

Question 7

Aphasia goals

Answer 7

involve communicative competence to communicate in any context.
Generally, you should see progress in the first three months of therapy with aphasia.
We should focus on usable skills and contexts within therapy.

Question 8

-auditory comprehension treatment (aphasia)

Answer 8

involves practicing following directions, listen and tell if true false, wh questions, yes no questions

Question 9

-expressive language treatment- (aphasia)

Answer 9

story telling and retelling, conversation, picture description, practicing content words, gradually increase length and complexity

Question 10

Reading comprehension (aphasia)

Answer 10

identifying letters, matching words to pictures, stance matching to pictures, short stories, realistic reading menu, telephone book etc.

Question 11

Right Hemisphere Disorder Characteristics what can they do

Answer 11

RHD is often not aphasic like with strokes that have affected the left side.
CAN normally process words and sentences in isolation.
CAN follow directions and have good short-term memory.
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Question 12

Right hemisphere disorder characteristics difficulties

Answer 12

• difficulty arranging words in a grammatical sentence.
• Problems with sentence comprehension with thematic roles in passive sentences
• generate fewer words
• problems with attention, perception, organization skills,
• lack of awareness of disease or disability (anosognosia)
• left neglect
• emotional effects/flat affect or monotone is unable to identify emotional tones and detect emotional faces.
• Metaphor comprehension

Question 13

Right Hemisphere disorder treatment

Answer 13

• left neglect such as having them follow your finger or specifically work on attention and practice looking to the left.
• Tasks practicing understanding social conversations and emotions using social situations or cue cards with emotions/practice expressing emotions.
• work on attention that can be practice paying attention or alternating attention tasks.
• metaphor practice cards

Question 14

With neurogenic disease many clients experience

Answer 14

dysarthria and dysphagia (swallowing). They experience difficulties with word-finding, organizing language, cognition, and narrative language.

Question 15

Therapy approaches neurological disorders/diseases:

Answer 15

to enable people with these diseases to live to improve their quality of life and communication.
-Such as alternative communication for when they lose the ability to speak,
OR focusing on sequencing and performing daily living tasks

Question 16

Parkinson’s -

Answer 16

nervous system disorder affects movement. Tremors are common/ causes stiffness and slowing of movement

Question 17

MS

Answer 17

immune system response to the CNS - which includes brain spinal and spinal cord

Question 18

Huntington’s disease

Answer 18

causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Deteriorates physical and mental abiltiies

Question 19

ALS

Answer 19

affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord/ loss of muscle control

Question 20

Dementia

Answer 20

memory loss, language, and problem-solving abilities. Often caused by Alzheimer’s disease (causes brain cells to degenerate)

Question 21

TBI can affect

Answer 21

cognitive functions like attention, concentration, processing speed, memory, and executive functions.
sensory perception: like vision, hearing smell.
Social-emotional effects can include aggression, depression, denial, dependent behavior, etc

Question 22

TBI Speech affected by

Answer 22

• dysphagia
• dysarthria
• apraxia-

Question 23

TBI treatment goals

Answer 23

-the goal is to help the person reach an independent level of functioning to help the person live the best they can and be able to express their needs.
This can vary from using AAC to the ability to express needs verbally.