Name that Paraphasia
"Pickle" for "Cucumber"
What is semantic paraphasia
What is halting
A PWA has difficulty understanding what is said aloud. This person has deficits in...
What is auditory comprehension
Name two clinical consequences associated with the presence of neglect in a PWA
What are longer stays in rehab and fewer discharges home
"Orange" for "Bye" "Car" and "Chair"
What is stereotypy
This term is synonymous with agrammatism
What is telegraphic speech
General term for impairments in written expression
What is agraphia
A PWA has difficulty recalling his wedding day. This patient likely has deficits in what type of memory?
What is long-term (episodic) memory
"The long yellow fruit with a peel"
What is circumlocution
"I do not like market drawing much always but everyday and going with wife also"
What is empty speech
Difficulty recalling names of people, objects, actions, or places
What is anomia
Name three executive function deficits that PWA are at risk for...
What are (problem solving, reasoning, inhibition, self-monitoring, planning, organization, cognitive flexibility)
"He manver in nurmur biffer"
"Yesterday wife movie"
What is agrammatism
This type of alexia refers to a greater difficulty reading irregularly spelled words/ homophones, the presence of phonological errors, BUT reading of non-words is spared
What is surface alexia
Impairments in these two types of memory appear to commonly coincide with aphasia
What are short-term and working memory
"Mustache" for "Mustang"
What is phonemic paraphasia
"In on a the by a flower pot"
What is paragrammatism
Name 3 stimulus factors that may facilitate or impede comprehension
What are (syntactic complexity; stimulus length; word familiarity; word frequency; stimulus presentation rate; degree of concreteness/abstractness; presence/absence of context clues)
PWA/ individuals with left hemisphere damage have been found to be less accurate, slower (or both) on which 4 types of attention tasks compared to neurotypical peers?
What are sustained attention, focused attention, divided attention, and attention switching tasks