What are utterances that are characterized by effortful, hesitant speech, and may be poorly articulated?
What is nonfluent aphasia
100
Transduction occurs in which part of the ear?
What is inner ear.
100
What opens every time a swallow occurs?
eustacian tube.
100
A person who is showing early signs of Alzheimer's disease may have difficulties doing...
Memory problems, handling finances, poor recall of recent events, getting lost easily, concentration problems, and forgetting location of common items.
100
True or False: Over 13 million people have some measurable form of hearing impairment.
What is : TRUE.
200
What converts energy to a code that can be interpreted by the brain?
What is Inner ear
200
What are utterances that lack smaller functions?
What is telegraphic speech?
200
A type of aphasia characterized by fluent speech; difficult to understand due to numerous paraphasias and little content.
What is Wernicke's aphasia.
200
What type of symptoms does a person have who suffers from left neglect?
They are unaware of sensory input on the left side of the body and the left side of the visual field.
200
In disorders of hearing, what percent of US children had some degree of measurable hearing loss?
What is 14.9% from ages 16-19.
300
What is the most common congenital anomaly found in new borns?
Disorder of hearing.
300
What does the middle ear contain?
Tympanic membrane and the ossicular chain
300
What is Broca's aphasia?
A nonfluent aphasia characterized by slow hesitant telegraphic speech, lesions effect the posterior portion of the left inferior lobe.
300
What are some other diseases related to dementia?
What is Pick's disease, Parkinson's Disease, AIDS, MS, Huntington's disease
300
What are some intervention techniques used for families and patients who have alzheimer's disease?
Counseling, individual vs. group, teaching of techniques and strategies, facilitating of residual communication/cognitive skills
400
True or False: Alzheimer's is a diagnosis, not a symptom.
What is True.
400
This disease is associated with small frequent strokes, frequent strokes, and a stair step decline of skills...
What is multi infant dementia.
400
What are the complications for an individual who suffers from right hemisphere communication disorders?
Difficulty with thought and organization, mental flexibility, and pragmatic use of language.
400
What are some symptoms of a person who is suffering from dementia?
The person may be affected mentally in the areas of intellectual function, cognition, language, and processing of visual-spatial information.
400
What are the three smallest bones in the human body?
The malleus, incus, and the stapes.
500
How do you assess an adult who has Alzheimer's?
Case history- education level/vocation; standardized assessment- language/oral/written symbols; cognition of memory- problem solving/general knoweledge; oriented 3x's- person place time
500
Name the three transduction systems.
What is vestibule, semicircular canal, and the cochlea.
500
What is the structure of the outer ear?
Outer ear and auricle of penna and the external auditory canal
500
How many transduction systems are there?
What is three.
500
What connects the middle ear cavity with the pharynx?