Types of Aphasia
This is the most severe form of aphasia. This usually is caused by a stroke, the symptoms show up almost immediately after a stroke. A person with this aphasia will be able to improve upon these symptoms but the bigger the brain injury the longer the disability might last.
Global aphasia
What is the mnemonic for a sign of a stroke?
FAST
This type of therapy is used for patients with expressive aphasia who use their right hemisphere to sing words or phrases they cannot speak.
Melodic Intonation Therapy
The inability to see words or to read.
Alexia
Damage to what artery causes damage to broca’s, wernicke’s areas and the angular gyrus?
Middle cerebral artery
This type of aphasia severely affects speech output, most patients with this have limited speech output mainly of short utterances of less than four words. The patient's vocabulary access is limited and their speech is laborious and clumsy.
Broca's aphasia
Mini-stroke; results from a blockage that can last from minutes to hours. Can be a warning sign of a future ischemic stroke
Transient Ischemic Attack
People with receptive aphasia have difficulty with this where they cannot recognize their own impairment and correct their own spoken mistakes.
Self Correction
The impairment or loss of a previous ability to write.
Agraphia
What may result in damage to the posterior aspect of broca’s area?
It may impact the way that words sound or phonological aspects.
Within this type of aphasia the ability to understand spoken words is impaired. Although a person can have connected speech and fluency their speech is far from normal. Their sentences can be morphed together and irrelevant words can intrude sometimes. Can sound like jargon.
Wernicke's aphasia
Which type of stroke results in ‘locked-in’ syndrome?
Brainstem stroke
This type of intervention is designed to help increase vocal elaboration abilities of persons with aphasia so they can more fully participate in conversation.
Response Elaboration Training
When the patient is unable to recall the names of everyday objects.
Anomia
If there was damage to the posterior aspect of the superior temporal gyrus what area of the cerebral cortex for language would be impacted?
Wernicke’s area
A neurological syndrome in which language abilities become slowly impaired. This form of aphasia is caused by neurodegenerative diseases like, Alzheimer's disease or Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.
Primary progressive aphasia
Which type of stroke accounts for 20% of CVA’s?
Hemorrhagic stroke
This assessment facilitates a diagnosis by classifying the patient as having 1 of 8 types of aphasia (Global, Broca’s, Transcortical motor, Wernicke’s, Transcortical sensory, Mixed transcortical, Conduction, and Anomic). Is also used to determine the location of the lesion.
Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R)
The use of many words where fewer would do.
Circumlocution
If there was damage to brodmann's area 45 what may the person have more difficulty with?
It may cause difficulty with word meaning and with semantics
This person would have a persistent inability to supply the words for what they want to talk about, specifically nouns and verbs. While their speech will be fluent in the grammatical form and full of vague circumlocutions and expressions of frustration, they understand speech and can read well.
Anomic aphasia
Define the difference between a thrombotic and embolic ischemic stroke
Thrombotic: blood clot formed in artery that supplies brain
Embolic: Blood clot forms in another part of the body
This assessment is designed to diagnose aphasia and related disorders. This test evaluates various perceptual modalities (auditory, visual, and gestural), processing functions (comprehension, analysis, problem-solving) and response modalities (writing, articulation, and manipulation).
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Evaluation-3rd Edition
When the error in the intended word is in the same semantic category.
Semantic Paraphasia
How might a lesion affect the angular gyrus when it comes to language?
Damage could affect sensory, auditory or visual aspects of language.