Aphasia Types
Characterized by severe deficits across all language modalities. Non-fluent, poor repetition, and damage is to both frontal and temporal lobes
What is global aphasia
Caused by damage to the right hemisphere, these disorders make it difficult for people to use memory, attention, and reasoning to read social cues and engage in meaningful communication. Often seen in right hemisphere disorders/syndromes.
What are cognitive-linguistic disorders
Including this measure in your evaluation allows for a look at communication and cognition in a 'real-world' functional task.
What is conversational discourse
This is received by the client when their cog-comm and language skills development translate to meaningful interactions outside of therapy and helps with generalization.
What is social validation
These level of attention must be present before you can work on alternating attention.
What are focused, sustained, selective
Characterized by non-fluent speech and relatively preserved comprehension. Repetition is impaired, speech is telegraphic at times, damage is to the frontal lobe.
What is Broca's aphasia
Caused by a degeneration or loss of neurons/neural connections. This group of disorders is progressive and irreversible and may start with impact on language or cognition but will eventually impact most skills.
What are neurodegenerative disorders
This is what you should know from a chart review that guides your decisions on what standardized assessment needs to be done.
What is "the type of disorder you are expecting to see"
This type of writing is necessary to meet basic life needs such as writing your signature.
What is survival writing
This framework of therapy suggests you write goals in micro-steps to move a person from baseline to maximum potential following a brain injury.
What is small step therapy
Characterized by fluent speech with severe comprehension issues. Often has paraphasias, neologisms, and jargon. Repetition and naming are impaired. Damage is to the temporal lobe.
What is Wernicke's aphasia
Defined by gradual loss of function that starts with memory and cognition. A key factor is impact on ADLs.
This is the first step in your evaluation process.
What is "collect a case history"
This refers to the limited amount of cognitive load we have and choosing where to apply our cognition within tasks.
Resource allocation
This approach to stimulating processes has 7 principles including: provide repetitive sensory stimulation, ensuring every stimulus elicits a response, and responses are elicited and not forced.
What is Schuell's 7 principles for stimulating disrupted processes.
Characterized by fluent speech and good comprehension but poor ability to repeat. Mild anomia is common, and they often try to self-correct. Damage is to the arcuate fasciculus.
What is conduction aphasia
This type of impairment-based therapy does not allow for compensation of deficit areas but instead forces the system to rewire to gain skills.
What is constraint-induced therapy
A comprehensive evaluation should rule out potential diagnoses and rule in only one. This process is called _____
What is differential diagnosis
What is circumlocution?
Visual imagery and rehearsal are forms of
Internal memory compensatory strategies
Characterized by fluent speech, good comprehension, intact repetition, but significant deficits in word retrieval. Damage is often to the temporoparietal junction or angular gyrus.
What is anomic aphasia
This is the brain's ability to form new neural connections when stimulated to relearn past skills.
What is neuroplasticity
At the end of formal assessment, you should be able to counsel/educate the patient/family on many things (share 3):
What are: type/severity of deficits, prognoses, goals, treatment plan (intensity/duration)
What is AAC
A program developed to encourage to function at their maximum potential for as long as possible. Often used in LTC settings and often requires caregiver modifications and caregiver training.
What are functional maintenance programs