Location
The language loop is made up of these three structures.
What are Broca's area, Wernicke's Area, and the arcuate fasciculus?
These are the four modalities of language.
What is spoken expression, written expression, auditory comprehension (listening), and reading comprehension?
A language deficit that manifests in the fixation and repetition of a specific sound or word.
What is perseveration?
All people with aphasia will have this to some level.
What is anomia/what is the reduced availability of vocabulary?
During the 1800s Broca's Aphasia would be attributed to this.
What is a motor deficit?
This region of the brain is in charge of planning and executing motor movements and directs the output of speech.
What is the anterior (frontal) region?
This type of aphasia is regarded as the worst-case scenario. With severe deficits to all modalities of language.
What is global aphasia?
What is a neologism?
All aphasia occurs as a result of this.
What is brain damage?
A collective name for a grouping of neurologic speech disorders that affects the planning of speech production.
What is dysarthria?
What is repetition deficit?
What is Broca's Aphasia?
A client is asked, "what do you fry eggs in?" and responds "dishwasher."
What is a semantic paraphasia?
All of the following are relatively intact in this form of aphasia: fluency, comprehension, and repetition.
What is anomic aphasia?
This is a motor speech disorder that results in problems executing speech production.
What is apraxia of speech?
A client with damage to this area may exhibit the following behaviors.
A client comes in and is able to correctly identify objects when given the task to point to each object as the name is said. Although when the client is asked to name objects the client's performance drops. When this client is asked to write about their day there is a lack of grammatical structures and sentences are marked in short utterances.
What is Broca's area?
What is anomic aphasia?
What is hyperfluency?
All people with fluent aphasias have functionality in this region of the brain.
What is Broca's Area?
This type of dysarthria is marked by damage to the basal ganglia, rigidity, and short rapid bursts of speech.
What is hypokinetic dysarthria?
Describe how diffuse damage we see in Global Aphasia results in such severe language deficits.
(Hint describe the result of damage we see in each location)
Frontal damage = poor fluency, lack of motor planning/execution, Broca's area.
Posterior damage = poor comprehension, poor reception, Wernicke's area.
Arcuate Fasciculus = poor repetition, loss of connection between Wernicke's and Broca's.
Classify the type of aphasia this client exhibits.
E: Did you eat breakfast today?
C: Well you see, the rammad, was in the is goinged.
E: Are you from San Diego?
C: Yes, the milks is cominged from over in there.
E: Do you have a dog?
C: Dogs are very dem goog, and, walking goed a lot.
*when asked to repeat client's score improves when clinician first holds up a stop hand points to mouth then points to client with a thumbs up.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
List at least three characteristics of aphasia in this language sample and what they are.
Ba in the thing you know. Ba ba ba umm, you know go around. It ba run ba ba ba battery.
Perseveration: "ba"
Circumlocution/Anomia: "the thing you know"
Agrammatism: "It ba run[s] [on] ba ba ba batter[ies]"
Nonfluent
All of the following are not attributable to aphasia.
(Hint: 3 things)
What are cognitive deficits, sensory loss, or motor deficits?
This type of dysarthria is marked by slurred speech, a lack of paralysis, and damage to the cerebellum.
What is ataxic dysarthria?