Naming Error
Target word: Hammer
Patient response: “You hit” “a tool”
This Naming Error Response is what type?
Semantic Circumlocution
In what modalities of communication can perseveration occur?
drawn, written, gestured, and spoken language.
What reatment approach is a therapy technique used to increase the number of content words in spontaneous speech for people with aphasia? In which content words are related nouns, main verbs, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, and adverbs, but not repetitions, unrelated, or unintelligible words.
Response Elaboration Training
Which Cranial Nerves originate in the midbrain?
CN III Oculomotor & CN IV Trochlear
Target word: Hammer
Patient response: "I know what it is" "I used to have one"
This Naming Error Response is what type?
Empty Circumlocution
What is "stuck-in-set" perseveration?
inappropriate maintenance of a category or framework after a new task has been introduced and started.
What treatment approach is a word-finding treatment that helps the person with aphasia learn to analyze the sounds in words and is based on the same principles of SFA?
Phonological Components Analysis
What type of Aphasia is most associated with a lesion in the posterior third of the superior temporal gyrus?
Wernicke’s
Target word: Hammer
Patient Response: "Axe"
This Naming Error Response is what type?
Semantic Paraphasia
What is continuous perseveration?
inappropriate prolongation or continuation of a behavior without an intervening response or stimulus.
What treatment approach is a method for improving auditory comprehension in those who have spared ability to understand written words in which the PWA progresses from single written word comprehension to oral reading and then to oral repetition and finally auditory comprehension.
Treatment of Wernicke's Aphasia
A cluster of neurons/nerve cells in the PNS are called?
Ganglion
Target word: "Hammer
Patient Response: "Ham-me-der"
This Naming Error Response is what type?
Phonemic Paraphasia
What are some methods for reducing perseveration?
Firmly establish a new task, time-out/distraction, awareness, concealing the previous stimuli, rate of stimuli presentation, spacing out related or similarly structured words.
This is an evidenced-based treatment method that uses intoning to improve expressive language in people with aphasia.
Melodic Intonation Therapy
Name 2 neurotransmitters
Glutamate, Dopamine, Serotonin, GABA,
Target word: Hammer
Patient Response: "Dolinger"
This Naming Error Response is what type?
Neologism/Jargon
What is recurrent perseveration?
inappropriate recurrence of a previous response following presentation of a new stimulus.
What treatment approach method focuses on verbs, encouraging patients to think of the people who perform the actions (agents) and the objects or people the actions are performed on (patients)?
VNeST