Dementia
This is the age at which most cognitive skills begin to decline.
What are the 20s/30s?
List at least 3 language modalities.
What are auditory comprehension, reading, writing, verbal speech production, repetition, gestural responses, or oral reading?
This brain structure is the gatekeeper of movement.
What is the basal ganglia?
This is the difference between dementia and delirium.
Dementia is persistent and irreversible.
This error is when a person is stuck on a certain word from day to day, and they use it for many things.
What is a stereotypy?
The six neuromuscular parameters of movement.
What are rate, rhythm, tone, range, force, and accuracy.
These are the four A's of dementia.
What are aphasia, apraxia, amnesia, and agnosia.
An example of this error type is saying, instead of "book", "this is something that you read from, with pages, and a story."
What is a circumlocution?
Dysarthria due to damage to the final common pathway.
What is flaccid dysarthria?
This is an approach to treatment for someone with late-stage dementia.
Elicit communication, provide orientation support, behavior management, and life participation.
The status of comprehension in the average participant with Broca's aphasia?
Mostly intact.
This disorder is an impairment of speech motor planning and programming.
What is apraxia of speech?
These are treatment approaches for early-stage dementia.
What are routine emphasis, sleep strategies, memorizing critical information, memory books, and adaptive communication strategies.
The two principles of supportive communication.
What are acknowledging competence and revealing competence?
This dysarthria type has a strained-strangled voice quality and pseudobulbar affect as distinguishing features.
What is spastic dysarthria?