Vocabulary
This is the inappropriate recurrence or uncontrolled repetition of a previously
What is a perseveration?
This approach capitalizes on intact functioning (singing) while engaging areas of the undamaged right hemisphere that are still capable of language
What is Melodic Intonation Therapy?
Characterized by nonfluent speech that is agrammatic as well as telegraphic
What is Broca's aphasia?
The underlying lesion for this aphasia is often found in the left temporal lobe
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
An important neural tract for language function, connects Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
What is the Arcuate Fasciculus?
The inability to evoke, retrieve, or recall a particular word
What is anomia and/or anomic block?
A treatment approach designed to help increase verbal elaboration abilities of persons with aphasia
What is Response Elaboration Training?
Consists of severe receptive and expressive language deficits, sometimes to the point where the individual can understand almost no language and cannot produce almost any language
What is global aphasia?
Extensive damage is done to the frontal, parietal and temporal regions of the left hemisphere
What is global aphasia?
The largest vessel branching off the internal carotid artery and the most common cerebral occlusion site
What is the Middle Cerebral Artery?
When an incorrect word substituted for an intended or target word
What is a paraphasia?
A word retrieval treatment in which the person with aphasia identifies important semantic features of a target word that is difficult to retrieve
What is Semantic Feature Analysis?
This aphasia is characterized by fluent, non-grammatical speech and poor auditory comprehension.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
This lesion is often found in the posterior inferior frontal gyru in the left hemisphere
What is Broca's aphasia?
Branches off the internal carotid
artery and supplies the anterior medial portions of the frontal and parietal lobes. It’s the vessel least commonly affected by strokes, so it can easily be misdiagnosed.
What is the Anterior Cerebral Artery?
Lengthy, fluently articulated utterance which makes little or no sense to the listener
What is jargon?
A nonverbal treatment approach that trains individuals to use hand gestures to indicate visually absent items
What is Visual Action Therapy?
Characterized by fluent speech with a significant impairment in repetition
What is conduction aphasia?
Lesion is limited to the supramarginal gyrus in the left hemisphere
What is conduction aphasia?
Arises from the top of the basilar artery and feeds the medial occipital lobe and inferior and medial temporal lobes. Large left strokes here may result in aphasia, whereas right PCA strokes may cause neglect
What is the Posterior Cerebral Artery?
The inability to evoke an elusive word, therefore, a substitute word, phrase, or gesture is used
What is a circumlocution?
A treatment designed to teach verbal and nonverbal communication strategies to individuals with aphasia and their primary communication partners
What is Conversational Coaching?
Similar to Wernicke’s with fluent paraphasic speech but is different in that repetition is relatively intact
What is transcortical sensory aphasia?
Involvement of the angular gyrus and the posterior sector of the middle temporal gyrus
What is transcortical sensory aphasia?