Aphasia Types
This type of aphasia is characterized by non-fluent, effortful, halting and choppy speech, limited word production to single words or groups of two to three words, agrammatic speech, telegraphic, problems with repetition of words and sentences, comprehension of language is better than production.
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A good therapy technique to help patients with Expressive Aphasia "tap into" automatic speech tasks could include counting and/or reciting the days of the week, etc.
This is an example of a patient who substitutes a word that is semantically related to the intended word (semantic (verbal) paraphasia).
This type of aphasia is non-fluent and the most severe type of aphasia. Its characteristics include, but are not limited to, profoundly impaired communication skills, limited verbal expression, decreased auditory comprehension, difficulty with repetition and naming, perseveration of utterances . . .
In this type of treatment, patients are asked to name objects or pictures that are presented to them.
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Whether the stroke occurs on the left side or the right, common symptoms include reduced attention, reduced short-term memory, emotional impacts, and weakness on one side, words that may be clear but that are strung together in nonsensical ways or words that are "garbled."
The left hemisphere is the "logical brain" and is involved in _______ and the right hemisphere is the "creative brain," involved in ___________ .
creativity, daydreaming, imagination
The video showed multiple clips of Giffords _______ as well as _______ in therapy with her SLP, which depicts the patient/clinician journey that a clinician and this patient take together.
Succeeding
This type of aphasia is caused by lesions in the posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus in the left hemisphere and is characterized by fluent, effortless and continual speech, dissociations between the sight and/or sound of words and their respective meaning, may show logorrhea, severe word finding problems, neologisms and circumlocutions and decreased auditory comprehension
This form of treatment can be effective for many people with aphasia who can retrieve a word they want to say by simply looking at the SLP's/SLPA's mouth making the first sound of the target word.
A patient repeatedly answers "blue" to different questions. What is this phenomenon called when a patient is “stuck” on a single response?
What are head injury, cerebral tumor, or other neurological causes.
understanding encouragement empathy
This type of attack or "mini stroke" is characterized by resolution of symptoms in a few minutes to 24 hours and the endurance of symptoms for a short amount of time.
One form of treatment is to pair _____________ with speech, with the goal being that the _______, paired with the utterance, will be facilitative.
Head injuries resulting in aphasia lead to what type of deficit:
a. uncontrollable singing
b. inability to play the piano
c. attention
d. concentration
e. both c. and d.
According to the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), (n.d.), this disorder is an acquired neurogenic language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain, most typically the left hemisphere, that affects all language modalities”.
Treating clients as the adults they are brings dignity to the treatment process and shows respect to patients. That said, what was a phrase used by Gifford's clinician that did both?
"Say it like a congresswoman."
This condition can result from a stroke and impair a patient's inability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss.
Up to 80 percent of strokes are preventable by taking certain precautions.
Gabby and her therapist are able to find a common ground with a song they used to sing as children. What was the name of that song?
What is This Little Light of Mine