Foundations
Etiology/report writing/general Tx
Aphasia (Ax/Tx)
Speech (Ax/Tx)
TBI/RHD Ax/Tx)
100
Name three work settings which SLPS can provide treatment to adult clients.
What is medical setting, home health, skilled nursing facility, rehab setting, outpatient clinic?
100
Adults that are diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder or acute disorder when they are adults? (i.e, not a congenital disorder)
What is an "acquired" disorder?
List 5 types of acquired disorders discussed in class. Are they medical diagnosis or treatment diagnosis?
100
A neurogenic disorder that may have one or more of the following deficits:
- Spoken language comprehension
- Written expression
- Reading comprehension
- Spoken language expression
What is Aphasia?
What does the definition of aphasia NOT include?
100
This speech disorder has consistent errors, is predictable, has consonant errors due to weak muscles.
What is dysarthria?
100
Clients may have poor memory, may be impulsive, may have poor decision making.
What is RHD or TBI?
200
A document written by ASHA. It's purpose is to establish the public's trust, protect clients and provide guidelines to treat clinicians.
What is the ASHA code of ethics?
200
A specific, measurable steps to meet a short term goal.
What is an objective?
-- LTG, STG, Objective....
200
Type of aphasia that causes the client to have difficulty understanding language but the client speaks fluently.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
What are the two main categories when differentiating aphasia?
200
Common form of assessment that requires specific speech and non-speech tasks.
What is oral motor exam and/or Diadochokinesis?
During oral motor exam:
- give examples of non speech tasks
- give exampls of speech tasks
200
This is a specific modality that is assessed for every client that may include client's ability to:
Comprehension of facial expressions
Production of facial expressions
Comprehension of prosody
Use of gestures
Discourse - turn taking
What are pragmatics?
This would be an area to assess to informally assess for what types of clients?
300
What are complexity levels?
300
After writing your goals, this type of data is taken to ensure stability and done BEFORE treatment begins.
Baseline data?
Are cues used? What other types of data do we use?
300
A type of paraphasia that would cause you to say "apple" when you really mean "banana".
What is semantic paraphasia?
-- what are other paraphasias? Can you give an example for each?
300
Frequent vowel errors
Struggle and frustration - groping
Limited prosody
Inconsistent error pattern
What is apraxia of speech?
300
Individuals may see a change in short term memory, episodic memory, declarative memory, working memory.
What are changes in normal ageing?
400
Client age
Client motivation
Client's ability to improve with cues (stimulability)
Client's family support
Client's severity of medical or tx diagnosis
What is a prognostic statement?
400
Independent, Minimum Assistance, Moderate Assistance, Maximum Assistance.
DM, IM, EQ, SC, phrase completion, choice/field of 3.
What are cue/suport levels.
Which is traditional cue level?
Can you write a goal using min, mod, max and then an objective using traditional method?
400
Picture Description - cookie theft task
Language Sample - story retell task
Conversational Sample - motivational interview
Questionnaire - client or family member
What are informal language assessment tasks?
400
A treatment approach that may utilize high or low tech to establish communication?
What is compensatory approach? What is AAC treatment approach?
400
A scale used to assess acute, severe TBI clients.
What is Rancho Los Amigos Scale?
500
A tool to assist audiologists and speech-language pathologists by providing the best available evidence and expertise in patient care, identifying resources vetted for relevance and credibility, and increasing practice efficiency.
What is ASHA Practice Portal?
500
The client’s history of previous work, hobbies, typical activity.
What is Prior Level of Function (PLOF)?
- Is this optional for an adult report?
- Why is it important?
500
These two types of communication disorders occur simultaneously and are sometimes difficult to differential diagnosis especially if client is severe.
What is Apraxia of Speech (AOS) and Aphasia?
500
The presence of motor speech disorders often implies a problem with nervous system which may validate a type of medical-neurological medical disease/diagnoses.
What is ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson Disorder, etc?
--how do you assess Speech Disorder?
500
A pattern of brain damage that occurs when, as a result of external forces, the brain bounces back and forth inside the skull, causing damage at the site of impact.
What is Coup-contrecoup?