Language
Difficult with this aspect of language is shown here:
“It’s that thing over there in that place.”
What is semantics?
This is the most common artery involved in acute stroke.
What is the middle cerebral artery?
Asking a patient to answer yes/no questions assess this.
What is receptive language?
Although it is progressive in nature, therapy can still be beneficial for someone with this type of aphasia.
What is primary progressive aphasia?
This approach to assessment/treatment prioritizes the person with aphasia and their life goals.
What is the Life Participation Approach?
A difficulty with this aspect of language is shown here:
“Boat go water.”
What is syntax?
This area of the brain is generally found in the left frontal lobe and is linked to a variety of speech and language functions.
What is Broca's area?
This error is typically seen in fluent types of aphasia and consists of a person producing a string of speech containing both real words and neologisms.
What is jargon?
This is a counseling tool that can be used to help patients identify their own goals/communication areas to work on.
What is motivational interviewing?
Signs of a stroke can be remembered using this acronym.
What is BEFAST or FAST?
An impairment of this aspect of language is shown here:
“I dock the wog.” for “I walk the dog.”
Wernike's area is located on the posterior segment of this part of the brain. The auditory cortex is there as well!
What is the superior temporal gyrus?
This type of assessment task assess connected-level language and involves asking a patient to re-tell a familiar story or describe the steps to a familiar activity.
What is a discourse task?
This intervention aims to improve lexical retrieval of content words in sentence context by promoting systematic retrieval of verbs and their thematic roles and patient.
What is VNEST?
In this variant of PPA, word finding deficits are characterized by a loss of access, not knowledge.
What is logopenic?
Difficulty with this aspect of language is shown here:
He is eat pea.
What is morphology?
This part of the brain has been linked to executive function tasks, personality expression, moderating social behavior, and aspects of speech and language.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
In this type of aphasia, a person generally has fluent speech, good comprehension, but poor repetition skills.
What is conduction aphasia?
Which treatment approach for individuals with aphasia intends to improve the retrieval of conceptual information (e.g., category, action) by accessing semantic networks?
What is semantic feature analysis?
This is a phenomenon that occurs in people with aphasia when failed attempts to use language results in them making fewer attempts.
What is learned non-use?
Difficulty with this aspect of language is shown here:
Q- What do you do for work? A- Um, I work in an office.
What is pragmatics?
The cerebellum is primarily responsible for this.
What is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity?
This is the hallmark error observed in the speech of people with aphasia.
What is word finding difficulty/anomia?
This type of therapy note is required for reimbursement of services.
What is a skilled therapy note?
A person with aphasia uses a word once correctly, but then continues to use that word several times when it is no longer appropriate.
What is perseveration?