This is approximately how many new cases of stroke occur each year.
What is 750,000?
100
This ethnic group has a higher incidence of stroke when compared to whites.
What is African Americans?
100
Things that are used to elicit spontaneous language from an aphasic patient
What is pictures, photos, and emotional topics?
100
this neurogenic speech disorder is characterized by sensory motor problems in volitional production of speech
What is apraxia?
200
This is a nondegenerative, noncongenital insult to the brain from an external mechanical force, possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial functions, with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness
What is traumatic brain injury?
200
These are the individuals who can acquire aphasia.
What is anyone?
200
These ethnic groups tend to have CVA earlier in life.
Who are Hispanics and African Americans?
200
These skills include "responsive", "confrontation" and "word fluency"
What are naming skills?
200
This is an acquired neurological syndrome that is usually accompanied by progressive deterioration in intelectual function.
What is Dementia?
300
This is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain
What is tumor (lesion)
300
This percentage of stroke survivors have aphasia.
What is 50%?
300
Whites are prone to have this type of CVA.
What is ischemic cva?
300
A group of motor speech disorders that result from impaired muscular control of the speech mechanism due tonervous system pathology.
What is dysarthria?
400
Meningitis and encephalitis are examples of these.
What is a bacterial or viral infection in the brain.
400
This is approximately how many individuals that acquire aphasia per year.
What is 80,000?
400
African Americans ate more likely to have this type of CVA.
What is hemorrhagic CVA?
400
This skill includes "Single words, object names, verbs, numbers, letters, function words, common, and uncommon sentences"
What are repetition skills?
400
A group of characteristics- mostly related to perceptual and attentional deficits-
What is right hemisphere dysfunction?
500
This refers to impaired brain function due to the brain’s exposure to and absorption of toxins such as solvents, chemicals, and heavy metals (like mercury and lead, among others).
What is toxicity?
500
This is the approximate number of persons in the U.S. that currently have aphasia.
What is 1 million?
500
The number of bilingual individuals who have aphasia each year in the U.S.
What is 150,000?
500
These skills include "recitation of the alphabet, days of the week, months of the year, and numbers"
What is automatic speech (and singing)
500
A type of aphasia characterized by lesions in the left basal ganglia or thalamus