Study guide Exam3 Pt.3 Flashcards
Causes of TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
-Falls
-Blunt trauma (including sport accidents)
-MVA (motor vehicle accident)
-Violent crimes
-Abuse(shaken baby, domestic violence)
-Suicide attempts
-Occupational injuries (nursing,
-Military actions
Most at risk for sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Males 2 to 3 times more likely (boys think differently… physically jumping off of things, coming up with crazy ideas to do, risk takers)
Deficits that may occur due to a TBI
-Deficits range from mild to server
-Deficits include:
1. Organization, attention and memory(cognitive deficit)
2. Reasoning. Judgment, problem solving(cognitive deficit)
3. Executive functioning(cognitive deficit)…not fully develop till 25
4. Pragmatics (can’t read the room)
What is Aphasia
- The loss of ability to comprehend or formulate language typically associated with neurological damage…(*one of the other or both)
- Aphasia makes it difficult to read, write, speak, or understand speech, It impairs language comprehension and expression. It often does not affect “thinking” and “intelligence”, only language. It’s as though the sufferer is suddenly in a foreign-speaking country.
- Does aphasia affect a person’s intelligence?
No
Main Characteristic of Anomic Aphasia
-Paraphasia
- words finding deficit (?)
How sound change as it travels from air to ear…
- Outer ear=Acoustic
- middle ear = mechanical energy
- inner ear= fluid/hydraulic
- from inner ear to brain = electric impulse
Goals for performing newborn hearing screenings
- screened by 1 month
- diagnosed/ identified HL by 3 months
-amplified by 6 months
*Pure tone audiometry
the the beep sound a at a hearing exam*