Background Aphasia
Accompanying Deficits
Types of Aphasia
Terms associated
Other Adult Language Impairments
100
Literally means "without language"
What is aphasia
100
Weakness on one side of the body
What is hemiparesis
100
Classification of aphasia that exhibits normal prosody, intonation, articulation, and lesions in the posterior portions of the left hemisphere
What is Fluent Aphasia
100
Difficulty retrieving words.
What is anomia
100
Neglect of information from the leftside and impaired judgement and self monitoring are key symptoms for this disorder.
What is right hemisphere damage.
200
It is estimated that this many Americans have aphasia
What is over 1 million
200
Loss of ability to perceive sensory information on one side of the body.
What is hemisensory impairment.
200
Damage to posterior portion of left temporal lobe resulting in poor auditory and visual comprehension, and empty speech consisting of neologisms.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
200
Failure to recognize one's own illness.
What is anosognosia
200
Affects orientation, memory, attention, reasoning, problem solving, and executive functioning. Pragmatics is the most disturbed language area
What is TBI
300
The most common cause of aphasia.
What is stroke
300
Difficulty chewing or swallowing
What is dysphagia
300
Characterized by severe naming difficulties in both speech and writing, mild to moderate comprehension problems
What is Anomic aphasia
300
Obstructed blood flow caused by blood clot, fatty materials, or air bubble that may travel from one location in the body to another location in the body.
What is embolism.
300
Group of pathological conditions and syndromes characterized by intellectual decline due to neurological causes.
What is Dementia
400
In aphasia this is related to the cause, location, extent, age of brain injury, and general health of the client.
What is severity/range of severity
400
Omission of grammatical elements
What is aggramatism
400
Characterized by slow labored speech, misarticulations, and struggle to retrieve words and form sentences.
What is Nonfluent Aphasia
400
Most common cause of aphasia
What is stroke
400
Alzheimer's disease is this type of dementia that results in the types of impairments seen in patients with aphasia and Right hemisphere damage, including visuopatial deficits, language deficits in naming, reading,writing, and auditory comprehension.
What is Cortical
500
Aphasia is generally considered to be a disorder that results after language skills have developed which means that it is not congenital but___________
What is acquired.
500
Difficulty with writing and reading.
What is Agraphia and Alexia
500
Damage to anterior parts of the left frontal lobe, nonfluent aphasia resulting in short sentences with agrammatism, articulation and phonological errors, and auditory comprehension abilities that are better than production abilities
What is Brocas Aphasia
500
Temporary condition with symptoms mirroring a stroke and may put a person at risk for stroke.
What is TIA
500
Alzheimers patients show extensive damage to these particular structures
What is hippocampus and cortex.
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