Dysphagia Dealings
This type of dysphagia is characterized by difficulty initiating swallowing and accompanied by chocking/coughing, nasopharyngeal regurgitation, or aspiration.
Oropharyngeal
True or False: When working with a patient with aphasia, it is helpful to finish their sentences for them.
False: Give them time to speak and resist the urge to finish sentences or offer words
The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing
Working memory
An actor recently in the news due to experiencing aphasia
Bruce Willis
The percent of people over the age of 70 with hearing loss
70%
This type of dysphagia is delayed after initiating swallowing and characterized by a sensation of food bolus arresting in transit.
Esophageal
This type of aphasia occurs due to damage to the posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant cerebral hemisphere, an area closely associated with the auditory cortex. It may involve language output that is difficult to understand
Wernicke's
A standardized test originally developed with a primary focus on assessment of dementia. It covers five domains: immediate memory, visuospatial/constructional, language, attention, and delayed memory
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update (RBANS)
A comedian who received cognitive rehabilitation after a TBI, allowing him to return to his stand-up and television career
Tracy Morgan
Listening through personal audio devices should not exceed this decibel level for adults.
80 dB
A treatment approach for dysphagia which utilizes electrodes applied to specific muscles involved with swallowing that are no longer functioning adequately.
NMES
This type of aphasia affects a person's ability to produce the words or sentences they intend to say. It may involve effortful speech and many starts and stops in speech production.
Broca's
This type of attention involves the ability to switch or immediately transfer focus from one activity to another.
Alternating Attention
A political satirist and Emmy-winning talk show host who is deaf in his right ear due to a tumor during childhood
Stephen Colbert
The average person is born with this number of hair cells.
16,000
An IDSII Level 5 diet involves this type of food
Minced and Moist
Approximate percentage of strokes that result in aphasia
33%
True of False: Mild cognitive impairments affect gait speed and quality.
True
A seven-time Grammy winning rapper whose journey to overcome stuttering inspired his music career
Kendrick Lamar
True or False: ASL is the universal sign language
False: There are over 300 sign languages around the world
A fluoroscopic procedure designed to determine whether food or liquid is entering a person's lungs
Modified Barium Swallow
False
A standardized cognitive test designed to assess the affects of dysexecutive syndrome, a cluster of impairments generally associated with damage to the frontal lobes of the brain.
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)
This Game of Thrones actress struggled with aphasia after an aneurysm and later started "Same You," a charity to help survivors of stroke and brian injury
Emilia Clarke
True or False: Hearing loss is correlated with an increased risk for falls.
True