Week 10:Bilingual Aphasia

Question 1

what is an aneurysm?

Answer 1

weakening and “ballooning” in the wall of an artery; if ruptured, results in bleeding into
surrounding tissue

Question 2

What is dysarthia?

Answer 2

a cluster of motor speech disorders, due to (partial) paralysis of muscles involved
in speech production

Question 3

What are the 3 stages in aphasia recovery?

Answer 3

acute, subacute, and chronic

Question 4

What is the acute stage of aphasia recovery?

Answer 4

Starts hours or days after onset
rapid recovery

Question 5

What is the subacute stage of aphasia recovery?

Answer 5

6m-1yr after onset
spontanoues recovery, obervable w/o intervention

Question 6

what us the chronic stage of aphasia?

Answer 6

life long after onset
continued improvement possible w/ intervention

Question 7

What is ribots law?

Answer 7

1st in last out

Question 8

what is pitres rule?

Answer 8

recovery best in most fluent lang

Question 9

What are the common aphasia recovery patterns?

Answer 9

Selective,parallel, successive, differential, blended(see-saw)

Question 10

what is parallel recovery?

Answer 10

all lang recover same rate

Question 11

What is selective recovery?

Answer 11

only some lang recover

Question 12

what is successive recovery?

Answer 12

langs recover 1 after other

Question 13

What is antagonitic recovery?

Answer 13

one lang recovers at cost of other

Question 14

what is see-saw recovery?

Answer 14

one recovers at other expense but they alternate recovery