Treatment
4 main factors determining a patient's prognosis
What are etiology, diagnosis, severity & time post-onset?
The most severe subtype of aphasia
What is global aphasia?
Schuell's stimulation approach (intensive sensory stimulation of all types) targets this modality
What is auditory comprehension?
A patient says "pritzer" instead of "trigger"
What is a neologism?
T/F: SLP may provide psychological therapy to patients with aphasia who have depression or other psychological disorders.
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common thrombolytic drug administered following an occlusive stroke
What is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)?
Subtype of aphasia similar to Broca's aphasia, but with preserved repetition skills
What is transcortical motor aphasia?
Name 1 of 3 treatments geared at writing and spelling for PWA
What are Copy and recall treatment (CART) & Anagram and copy treatment (ACT) & Problem-solving approach?
if the processing path is Visual cortex → angular gyrus → Wernicke's area for comprehension, this is for...
A framework whose main focus is improving quality of life through re-engagement for patients w/apahsia
What is Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)?
Treatment approach aimed at increasing lexical retrieval skills through wh-questions and semantic-thematic roles of a verb
What is Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNest)?
What are the 4 non-fluent subtypes of aphasia in the classical model?
What are Broca's, transcortical motor, transcortical mixed, & global aphasias?
This treatment approach geared at word-finding difficulties requires auditory and visual processing of sentences w/a focus on verbs
What is Verb as Core (VAC) treatment?
What is conduit d'approche (common in conduction aphasia)?
A scoring tool to determine degree of assistance in ADLs for individuals with communication disorders
What are Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores?
A treatment similar to semantic feature analysis, but instead asks for first sound, first sound associate, final sound, rhymes & # of syllables
What is Phonological Components Analysis
Name one subtype of aphasia (2 possible) for which echolalia is a hallmark
What are transcortical sensory aphasia and/or mixed transcortical aphasia?
A client has acquired dyslexia so an SLP uses one of these approaches in treatment (2 possible)...
What are Oral reading of language in aphasia (ORLA) and/or Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR)?
WAB-R/BDAE help ____ patients, while FAST/MAST help ____ patients
What is diagnose & screen?
A speech behavior with continuous, incessant talking
What is constraint-induced language therapy?
Damage to the white matter tract btw BA 44-45 & BA22 causes___
What is conduction aphasia?
A client with global aphasia is undergoing Visual Action Therapy (VAT), which means they can use...
What are symbolic gestures?
If a client is undergoing Voluntary Control of Involuntary Utterances (VICU), it is likely they have this speech profile.
Their speech s limited to automatic production of a few words
Broadman's area 39 is also called___
What is the angular gyrus?