Speech and language

Question 1

aphasia

Answer 1

Language impairment, resulting in difficulty, understanding, speaking, reading, writing and gesturing

Question 2

brocas aphasia

Answer 2

Nonfluent aphasia
Expressive aphasia

Word finding difficulty
Speech is labored or slow
Paraphasic errors (pencil instead of pen)
Lack of grammar
Mainly use nouns
Comprehension is spared- they understand
aprosody - monotomous

Question 3

wernickes

Answer 3

fluent aphasia
receptive aphasia

speech is fluent but meaningless
Prosody - expressive and articulate
Comprehension impaired
Neologisms- nonsense words or sounds
Circumlocution- round about way to get to meaning

Question 4

dysarthria

Answer 4

muscles used for speaking have-
Decreased strength
Decreased range of motion
Decreased rate of motion

Decreased-
articulatory precision
Rate
Volume

Question 5

speech apraxia

Answer 5

Difficulty with purposeful movement of speech muscles to form words
No paralysis of speech muscles
Poor voluntary control

Difficulty with production lip, movements, and tongue placement

Question 6

dysphasia screening assessment

Answer 6

bedside exam
VBMS- gold standard
FEES