Speech, Dominance & Laterality

Question 1

early damage to brain

Answer 1

changes speech dominance to R from L (crossed dominance)

Question 2

crowding

Answer 2

injury between 1 & 5, language spared but visual-spatial defect b/c linguistic skills “crowd” out other skills

Question 3

mutism

Answer 3

absence of speech (organic or elective)

Question 4

aphonia

Answer 4

loss of capacity to produce vocal sounds

Question 5

aphemia

Answer 5

loss of capacity to verbalize, disconnection of white matter tracts below broca’s area

Question 6

dysarthria

Answer 6

impaired capacity to articulate speech sounds due to impaired neuromuscular control

Question 7

aphasias

Answer 7

acquired disturbances of linguistic functions due to injury of the central nervous system

Question 8

dimensions of language assessment

Answer 8

fluency, comprehension, repetition

Question 9

fluency

Answer 9

phrase length, effortfulness, prosody, grammatical form

Question 10

non-fluent aphasias

Answer 10

damage anterior to sylvian fissure

Question 11

fluent aphasias

Answer 11

damage to posterior brain

Question 12

global aphasia

Answer 12

no fluency, no comprehension, no repetition

Question 13

isolation of speech

Answer 13

no fluency, no comprehension, do have repetition

Question 14

broca’s aphasia

Answer 14

no fluency, do have comprehension, no repetition

Question 15

transcortical motor

Answer 15

no fluency, do have comprehension, do have repetition

Question 16

transcortical sensory

Answer 16

do have fluency, with paraphasias in speech, no comprehension, no repetition

Question 17

conduction

Answer 17

have fluency, with paraphasias, have comprehension, no repetition (affects arcuate fasciculus)