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| Aphasia is the result of this. |
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| Severity of aphasia is based on these things. |
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| cause of disorder, location and extent of brain injury, age of the injury, and general health of client. |
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| Aphasia can affect these modalities. |
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| Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and/or related language functions (e.g., arithmetic, gesturing, telling time, counting money, interpreting environmental noises |
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| Aphasia affect how many people in the U.S.? |
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| What are the deficits and characteristics of aphasia? |
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| reduced vocabulary, omission or addition of words, stereotypic speech, delayed or reduced output of speech, hyperfluent speech, language comprehension deficit. |
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| Physical deficits that accompany aphasia. |
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| hemiparesis, hemiplegia, hemisensory impairment, hemianopsia, dysphagia, epilepsy, tonic-clonic (unconsciousness); petit mal/psychomotor (loss of motor control but conscious) |
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| weakness on one side of the body |
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| Blindness in right visual field of each eye |
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| Expressive language deficits that accompany aphasia |
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| Agnosis, Agrammatism, Agraphia, Alexia, Anomia, Jargon, Neologism, Paraphasia, Verbal Stereotype |
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| sensory deficit accompanying some aphasias that make it difficult for the client to understand sensory information; may be specific to auditory or visual information |
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| Omission of grammatical elements such as articles and prepositions, morphological endings (-ing, -es) |
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| meaningless or irrelevant speech with typical intonational patterns. Often long and syntactically correct although containing nonsense. |
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| A new or novel word that does not exist in the client's language. |
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| Word substitutions found in speech which is fluent and grammatic. |
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| Writing is full of mistakes and poorly formed; unable to write what the are going to say; agrammatism, argon and neologisms may be present. |
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| Difficulty naming entities; know what they want but can't find the word to name it. |
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| Define: Verbal Stereotype |
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| An expression repeated over and over; may be an obscene word or neologism. |
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| Characteristics of fluent aphasia? |
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| Typical rate, intonation, pauses, and stress patterns; suffers from word substitutions, neologisms, verbose |
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| Wernickes' Aphasia, Anomic Aphasia, Conduction Aphasia, Transcortical Sensory Aphasia, Subcortical Aphasia |
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| What Type of fluent aphasia has the following characteristics: 1) fluent or hyperfluent speech, 2) poor auditory and visual comprehension, 3) verbal paraphasia or unintended words and neologisms, 4) sentences formed by strings of unrelated words, 5) mild to severe impairment naming and imitative speech |
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| Characteristics of this fluent Aphasia: 1) Severe anomia in both speech and writing, 2) fluent spontaneous speech marred by word retrieval difficulties, 3) mild-moderate auditory comprehension problems |
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| Characteristics of this fluent aphasia: 1) Anomia, 2) mild (if any) auditory comprehension impairment, 3) extremely poor repetitive or imitative speech, 4) paraphasia |
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| Characteristics of this type of aphasia: 1) unimpaired ability to repeat or imitate words, 2) verbal paraphasia or word substitutions, 3) lack of nouns and severe anomia, 4) poor auditory comprehension |
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| Transcortical Sensory Aphasia |
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| Characteristics of this fluent aphasia: 1) fluent expressive, 2) paraphasia and neologisms, 3) repetition unaffected, 4) auditory and reading comprehension relatively unaffected |
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| These are the characteristics of a nonfluent aphasia. |
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| Slow labored speech; struggle to retrieve words and form sentences; site of lesion in/near the frontal lobe |
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| What are the three nonfluent aphasias? |
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| 1) Broca's Aphasia, 2) Transcortical Motor Aphasia, 3) Global or Mixed Aphasia |
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| Characteristics of this nonfluent aphasia:1) short sentences with agrammatism, anomia, problems with imitation of speech, slow labored speech and writing, 5) articulation and phonological errors |
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| Characteristics of this nonfluent aphasia: 1) impaired speech, 2) good verbal imitative skills, 3) mildly impaired visual and auditory comprehension |
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| Transcortical Motor Aphasia |
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| Characteristics of this type of nonfluent aphasia: profound language impairment in all modalities, 2) imitative speech and naming affected, 3) auditory and visual comprehension limited to single words or short phrases |
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| Of the 1/2 million Americans that suffer a stroke each year, how many become aphasic? |
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| the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. |
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| Describe: Ischemic Stroke |
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| Complete or partial occlusion of the arteries |
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| Describe stroke by Cerebral arteriosclerosis |
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| thickening of the cerebral arteries; elasticity lost; walls week; blood flow restricted |
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| Describe stoke by Embolism |
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| obstruction to flow due to a traveling blood clot |
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| Describe stroke by thrombosis |
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| plaque build up or blood clot formed at site; does not travel |
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| Describe stroke by hemorrhage. |
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| Describe stroke by aneurysm |
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| saclike bulge in weakened artery wall |
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| Describe stroke by Arteriovenous Malformation |
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| poorly formed tangle of arteries and veins in brain; weak walls ma burst under pressure |
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| Risk factors associated with stroke? |
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| smoking, alcohol use. poor diet, lack of exercise, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and history of strokes |
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| What is the most common type of stroke? |
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| What are indicators that you have had a stroke? |
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| loss of consciousness, headache, weak or immobile limbs, slurred speech |
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| Transient Ischemis Attack, Ministrokes that may precede a major stroke |
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| Some Lifespan issues associated with a stroke? |
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| hospitalization, 1/3 mortality rate, acute care , aphasia and neuromuscular deficits, perseveration, disinhibition, exaggerated mood swings, isolation & dependency |
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| 1) Medical history, 2) Interview client and fam, 3) oral peripheral exam, 3) hearing test, 4) speech and language observation and testing |
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| 1) All areas of language; 2) reading, writing, auditory comprehension, expressive language, gestures and nonlinguistic communication; across all 5 aspects of language; higher functioning, interpretation of client behavior |
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