Characteristics
Characteristics include initial mutism, severe naming difficulties, and impaired reading and writing skills. Auditory comprehension for simple material is intact as well as repetition. They may display hemiplegia/hemisensory loss and right visual field deficits. Severe cases may be in a coma.
What is subcortical aphasia with damage to the thalamus?
Lesions occur between Wernicke's area and Broca's area, especially in the supramarginal gyrus in the inferior parietal lobe and the arcuate fasciculus.
What is conduction aphasia?
Substitution of one word for another word that is similar in meaning. Ex. "Brush" for "comb"
What is a semantic paraphasia?
A cluster of nerve cell bodies, often similar in function, located in the PNS
What are ganglion?
This treatment area includes the treatment sequence of understanding single words to spoken sentences and finally discourse.
What is the treatment of auditory comprehension?
Characterized by incessant, effortlessly produced speech as well as severe word finding issues and circumlocution, pharaphasic speech, difficulty repeating, and poor auditory comprehension. Grammatical structures are still intact.
Lesion in the temporoparietal region, specifically the posterior portion of the middle temporal gyrus. Parts of the occipital lobe may be effected.
What is TSA?
When a similar-sounding but different meaning word is accidentally substituted. Ex. "poon" for "spoon"
What is a phonemic paraphasia?
The outer layer of the cerebrum of the brain
What is the cortex?
Treatment and support for people with aphasia that can improve linguistic functioning in a naturalistic setting and enhance social networks. May address total communication via any means, conversation skills, narrative skills, problem solving, etc.
What is group treatment?
Good repetition (but will repeat grammatically incorrect forms). Show impaired auditory comprehension, severe naming problems, empty speech, and good reading skills but impaired comprehension. Patients typically display intact automatic speech (e.g. naming the days in a week).
What is Transcortical Sensory Aphasia (TSA)?
Lesion in the posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus in the left hemisphere.
What is Wernicke's area?
What is phonetic dissolution?
Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons.
What are glial cells?
When targeting this skill, subject matter should involve material related to the individual patient. Some cues may include semantic cues, incomplete sentences, gestural/picture cues, phonetic cues, etc. Treatment eventually involves systematically increasing the length and complexity of target responses; techniques may include narrating picture scenes or controlled topic conversation
What is treatment of verbal expression?
Rare form of aphasia characterized by disproportionate impairment in repetition and word finding difficulties (specifically with content words). They display normal auditory comprehension. These patients may attempt to correct speech but they are not always successful
What is conduction aphasia?
Damage to the basil ganglia and left thalamus.
What is subcortical aphasia?
What is circumlocution?
The layer of fatty tissue segmentally that speeds up signal?
What is myelin?
Treatment should be based on premorbid skills and may be from simple tasks to more complex.
What is reading and writing treatment?
Characterized by good auditory comprehension and intact repetition. They display debilitating word finding difficulties, empty speech, paraphasias, and circumlocution.
What is anomic aphasia?
Lesions can be found in different areas of the brain including the angular gyrus, second temporal gyrus, juncture of temporal parietal lobes.
What is anomic aphasia?
A need to speak immediately and rapidly.
This theory assigns specific functions to particular places in the cerebral cortex.
What is the localization theory?
A general philosophy and model of consumer-driven service delivery that places the life concerns of the person with aphasia and others affected by it at the center of decision making. Helps the person with aphasia reengage in life through daily participation in activities of his or her choice.
What is the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia?