CVA/Stroke
The FAST acronym is used a warning for recognizing the signs of a stroke. The F stands for Face (weakness), S for Speech, and T for Time. The A stands for this part of the body.
Arms
This form of aphasia is considered "fluent" and involves the inability to comprehend language .
Receptive (Wernicke's) Aphasia
Chronic traumatic _________ known as CTE is a form of concussion discovered by Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2015.
Encephalopathy
A deficit in the neural motor planning or programming of the articulatory muscles and movement.
Cultural considerations for providing services to someone following a stroke include interpreting of results, avoidance of stereotyping, and recognizing their beliefs about _______________ .
Health, illness, disability, disorders, or medical care
The term for bleeding in the brain which would be a cause for a CVA.
Hemorrhage
This form of aphasia is non-fluent and involves the frontal lobe of the brain.
Broca's (Expressive) Aphasia
An open head injury (OHI) can cause cognitive deficits. some examples of OHI include war wounds, blast injuries, and PTSD which stands for _________ _____________ ____________ ____________.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
A neurological disorder where children have trouble planning motor movements of their articulators.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Communication partner training for language disorders in adults includes speaking slowly, pausing, repeat/rephrase, and use of ___________ and facial expressions.
Gestures
Another term for an out-pocketing of a blood vessel that may occur in the cerebral hemispheres is an _____________ .
Aneurysm
In Wernicke's Aphasia, patients will have difficulty with understanding spoken utterances, providing a yes/no response, and following _______________ or recognizing their own _____________ .
Directions, Errors
Impairments resulting from a TBI include deficits with memory, attention, reasoning, problem-solving, and _______________ to person, place, or time.
Orientation
A neurological speech disorder characterized by weakness or incoordination of the muscles of respiration, phonation, resonation, and articulation.
Cortical atrophy is a loss of brain tissue that is evident in a person with advanced ___________ _________.
Alzheimer's Disease
This term refers to an obstruction in an artery that may cause a stroke.
Embolism
Recommendations for communicating with someone with aphasia include having the person watch your face as you speak, insert short pauses to them time to process the information, and to ___________ words for better comprehension.
Write words
Change words
Difficulty with interpreting abstract language, recognizing social communication, and following rules of communication characterizes SCD or _____________ ____________ ____________.
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
name one neuromuscular disorder commonly associated with dysarthria.
Parkinson's, ALS, MS, Myasthenia Gravis
In a person with Stage II Alzheimer's Disease, they have difficulty with working memory, diminished vocabulary, and increasing difficulty with ________________ speech which is empty and meaningless.
Conversational
Factors that impact the recovery from a stroke include chronological age, the site and size of the lesion, and the patient's ___________ ___________ .
Physical (medical) health
Anomic aphasia involves difficulty with word-finding, use of fillers, and difficulty with __________ people or things.
Naming
Visual-spatial recognition impairments and left-side neglect are results from disorders with the __________ cerebral hemisphere.
Right
The primary goal in EBP for dysarthria includes a restorative approach and a ____________ approach.
Compensatory
An acute inflammation of the lungs caused by a foreign material entering the lung tissue.
Aspiration pneumonia