Aphasia
The mildest form of aphasia, characterized by word finding problems.
What is Anomia?
Type of language disorder that happens after speech and language skills are already established, usually as a result of a stroke.
What is Acquired?
A floating clot that lodges at a constriction in a blood vessel interrupting the blood supply.
What is embolus?
What is content?
Term for a lack of oxygen.
What is anoxia?
The most devastating form of aphasia resulting from extensive damage to the entire language hemisphere.
What is Global Aphasia?
Combining different consonants and vowels while stringing sets of different syllables together in a way that has a speech-like quality. Typical between 6 and 9 months.
What is Babbling?
Injury resulting on the side of impact and opposite the original site of impact.
In language intervention, the technique in which the clinician narrates what he/she is doing, thinking, and feeling.
Swelling around the injury of an area.
What is edema?
Non-fluent aphasia characterized by agrammatism, resulting from damage to the posterior, inferior, frontal lobe.
What is Broca's aphasia?
Age at which children are expected to produce their first words.
What is 10 to 14 months?
Encapsulated blood from a broken blood vessel.
What is a hematoma?
Can be used to obtain detailed information regarding a child's overall language ability.
What is language screening?
Bulge in the wall of an artery resulting from weakness.
What is an aneurysm?
Fluent aphasia, characterized by jargon, resulting from damage to the superior, posterior, temporal lobe.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
The earliest age at which the most reliable diagnosis for autism can be made.
What is 18 months?
Period following a TBI when the swelling subsides and the patient goes through a period when some functions return.
What is spontaneous recovery?
An approach to language intervention in which all the language therapy activities are related to a children's book.
What is literature-based language intervention?
Meaningless words typical of Wernicke's aphasia.
What is jargon?
The word production problems present in a person with aphasia who often produces a different but related word for the intended word. Ex "I have a leapord for a pet" when they really have a kitten.
What is paraphasias?
What is developmental?
Often called a 'mini stroke', symptoms of this event usually subside within 24 hours with little if any residual effects.
What is transient ischemic attack?
What is norm referenced tests?
Interruption of blood supply to an area of the brain (stroke).
What is cerebrovascular accident?