How bad is my brain injured?
Can I get a clock drawing?
Can you hear me now?
What did you say?
Swallowology
100
This assessment is used to evaluate patients with disorders of consciousness.
What is the Coma Recovery Scale Revised (CRS-R)?
100
Name 2 areas of skills (substrates) that are included under "cognitive-communication".
What is Attention, memory, executive functions, etc.
100
This term describes a total loss of voice, meaning the inability to produce any vocal sound.
What is aphonia?
100
This is the side of the brain language is primarily located on
Left
100
This allows NPO patients to have plain water after brushing their teeth
Free Water Protocol
200
This term describes when a patient generates a false memory (without the intent to deceive) or fills gaps in the memory?
What is confabulation?
200
When a patient with right hemisphere damage draws a clock and it only has numbers written on the right side, what impariment can this indicate?
What is left neglect.
200
This term describes the degree to which a listener understands a speaker's speech. It is often measured as the percentage of words correctly understood by a listener.
What is Speech Intelligibility?
200
What kind of error is: hapoopta for helicopter
Neologism
200
Based on the principles of neuroplasticity, this is the best activity to improve swallowing
Swallowing
300
These are the 10 questions asked when determining a patient's awareness. (Name as many as possible!)
What is (city, type of place, name of hospital, month, date, year, DOW, time, situation, impairments)?
300
This is a term we use to describe the social aspects of language (e.g., eye contact, facial expressions, initiating conversations, turn taking)
What is pragmatics?
300
This is a neurologic speech disorder that reflects an impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands necessary for directing the movements needed to produce sounds, syllables, and words.
What is Apraxia of Speech?
300
This is an item all therapists should have with them when working with a person with aphasia
Pen and paper
300
The risk of this causing pneumonia is decreased in people who maintain good oral hygiene and daily physical activity
Aspiration
400
This score is required to officially "test" out of PTA.
Bonus: how many consecutive days do they need to achieve this score?
What is >24?
and.. 2 consecutive days!
400
Computer based program used in speech therapy, that involves numbers, sounds, people reading random numbers, newcast noise, etc.
What is Attention Process Training-3
400
This device attaches to a tracheostomy tube and creates a one-way valve allowing a patient to exhale through the upper airway and speak
What is a Passy Muir Speaking Valve?
400
What do you call it if someone spontaneous kept saying: Pancake, pancake, pancake, with different prosody?
Recurrent utterance
400
This device is stuck to the skin and provides real-time visual biofeedback related to timing and effort of swallow muscle contractions
sEMG (surface electromyography)
500
What are we looking for in order for someone to be emerged from the minimally conscious state?
command follow, communication, functional object use
500
This is something you can check to see if a patient has in their room or with them to support them in remembering their daily events, etc.
What is an external aid (e.g., binder, planner, notepad)?
500
The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve supplies motor function to the vocal folds via an indirect route looping around this organ before ascending to the larynx.
What is the heart?
500
What do you call an acquired writing disorder
Agraphia
500
This texture modification is often used for patient's with delayed swallow response, however does not have strong evidence to suggest it will decrease risk of adverse events in patients that aspirate [take a sip!]
Moderately thick liquids (level 3) a.k.a. honey thick liquids