transcortical sensory aphasia Flashcards
most commonly affected areas
posterior parieto-temporal regions sparing wernicke’s area
TSA can often coexist with
alzheimer’s disease dementia (both include possible changes to posterior association cortex)
features of tsa include
-au. comp. deficits
-fluent but empty and paraphasic spontaneous speech
-naming is often but not always impaired
-impaired confrontation naming (semantic anomia)
-semantic paraphasias more common compared to phonemic paraphasias
semantic anomia
association with poor recgonition of words that cannot be named
possible area of strength
intact repetition skills
in tsa it is important to rule out the possiblities of
dementia
other high-risk comorbidities in tsa
hearing loss and vision changes
general treatment considerations
- for severe fluent aphasias (WA, TSA) include stimulation of auditory-verbal associations
- for less severe (AA, CA) focus more on remediation of expressive deficits such as paraphasias and word retrieval failure
attentive reading and constrained summarization (ARCS)
Focuses on attention while reading aloud and orally summarizing text
semantic feature analysis
-improve ability to retrieve target vocab is goal
-client produces words semantically related to the target word
phonologic component analysis
-goal: improving word finding/naming skills, it helps to strengthen activation of lexical networks
-typically used with anomic aphasia
Breaking down words into sounds
cognitive approach to treatment of auditory comprehension
Using attention to comprehend auditory information in natural and every day situations (need to be alert w/good graphomotor skills)
difference between SFA and PCA
SFA looks at semantic features of a word, PCA looks for phonemic sounds of a word
