Subtypes
What is flaccid dysarthria?
A rating scale used to measure level of consciousness immediately following a TBI. Typically completed in the field or emergency room.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
A speech disorder that involves a breakdown at the level of neuromuscular execution.
What is dysarthria?
What is UVA Children's Hospital? or Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center?
When a blood clot, plaque, or foreign object and travels through a vein or artery.
What is an embolus?
What is global aphasia?
This standardized assessment yields an aphasia severity level and aphasia type. This assessment also combines static and dynamic assessment in an organized set hierarchy.
What is the Western Aphasia Battery?
This communication disorder is characterized by irrelevant confabulatory language, faulty memory, confusion and reduced recognition of their environment. Syntax, basic auditory comprehension and repetitions tend to be intact.
What is language of confusion?
A standardized test discussed in class that is normed on individuals with brain injuries as well as non-brain injured adults. Therefore a SS of 85-115 does not equate to "normal" cognitive functioning.
What is the Scales of Cognitive Ability for Traumatic Brain injury?
The procedure that helps the SLP determine whether there is a gross disruption in communication, if there is a need for further testing and which formal tests would be appropriate for the patient's needs.
What is a bedside consultation or screening?
This type of dysarthria does not present with weakness and is characterized by incoordination because of damage to the cerebellum.
What is ataxic dysarthria?
Directions such as stick out your tongue, bite your lower lip and puff out your cheeks are all types of this.
What are examples of non-speech volitional oral motor acts?
Speech errors are inconsistent and unpredictable. Islands of clear, well articulated speech exist.
What is apraxia of speech?
Mrs. Epperly's father had this type of cerebral vascular accident.
What is a right CVA?
What is theory of mind?
This type of aphasia is characterized by poor auditory comprehension, decreased repetition and fluent speech.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
What is the Ranchos los Amigos Scale?
This communication disorder is characterized by denial of illness, irrelevant excessive rambling speech, and exogenous attention.
What is right hemisphere dysfunction?
Mrs. Epperly read language of confusion examples from a book with this title.
What is Where is the Mango Princess?
What is aphasia?
This type of dysarthria is characterized by slowness of movement, rigidity and resting tremors may be present.
What is hypokinetic dysarthria?
A scale with seven stages that provides caregivers wtih an overview of cognitive decline for those with primary degenerative dementia, such as Alzheimer's.
What is the Global Deterioration Scale?
A spectrum of disorders that's key features include sustained deterioration of memory and deficits in at least three other areas (e.g. orientation, problem solving, community affairs, personal care).
What is dementia?
This is the reason, Mrs. Epperly's father hit her with the motorized grocery cart.
What is because he had left visual neglect?
A substitution of a word that is unlike the intended word.
What is a random paraphasia?