Aphasia Final Exam

Match with the definition for client-centered terms:Seek to understand meaning of aphasia from perspective of PWA/family

Which of these are errors at the word level?

Complete impairment of non lexical reading- pseudo words. Turn non words into words. No semantic errors.

T or F: PWA commonly do not have attention deficits

Peripheral Alexia Subtypes don’t often occur with aphasia (pure, neglect, visual, and attentional alexias)

What is true about the definition of Aphasia?

Which type of memory is a Gateway to and from LTM and Holding and manipulation of info

With Neglect alexia individuals cannot identify initial or final letter of word: substitute : “bat” they say “cat”

Interactions between WM STM and LTM are not crucial for successful language rehab!

T or F: Aphasia is an intelligence issue and cognitive issue

T or F: Neural structures and circuitry used for cognitive processing is also used with language function

T or F: Working Memory has a primary role in language processing, may contribute to PWA variability

PWA can perform less accurately and or more slowly on...

Spelling of individual words is a process of written language

PWA with which type of brain injury are more likely to have concomitant deficits in Executive Function

Which defines Pure alexia

Which is NOT an auditory comprehension disorder?

What type of memory is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active readily available state(dory)

Match to correct term: Partnership based off respect, trust and confidentiality. Counseling, support, goal development.

Linguistic content of message is a process of written language

Which alexia does this pertain to: Show them a word and nonword they are going to struggle with the non word

What are two FORMAL assessments that screen for cogntion and attention

Errors reading out loud during lexical single word reading. Mostly struggle with words that are irregularly spelled

What is important to pay attention to during an INFORMAL assessment?

Visuospatial organization and sequencing of graphic symbols is a process of written language

Pragmatism: substitution of grammatical morphology as key symptom; structural impairment

Match: communicate elements face to face interaction. Spoken language, gesture, facial expression, gaze, etc.

40% of PWA who perform poorly in treatment have executive function impairments

Central agraphias: focus of impairment is in central spelling routes

Match to correct term for client centered: PWA has right to make their own choices.

T or F: Speech errors will tell us which levels of processing are available to support word retrieval and which are not

What are componants of attention?

Research in alexia focuses on training reading at single- word level

Motoric organization of the orthographic output is a process of written language

Witch type of memory is declarative (conscious recall, facts or events) and nondeclarative memory (driving a car)

Which is more common for fluent aphasia?

Attention: is a foundation of other cognitive domains, minimum cognitive activity needed for anything else to be added

Peripheral agraphias: difficulties involved the selection or production of letters in handwriting

PWA have issues with Nonverbal and verbal declarative memory, nonvernal learning/ encoding and nonverbal and verbal WM

Central Alexia subtypes often occurs with aphasia

What are treatment approaches for improving verbal production for Aphasia

Agrammatism: omission of grammatical morphology, simplified syntactic structures, reduced verb production

Using pictures is a good way to distinguis between memory and language

"Problem solving, planning, prioritizing, organizing, inhibiting, categorizing" goes to which cognative domain?

What is the most rare type of auditory comprehension disorder

Text based reading treatment includes: Increase in reading fluency on trained and untrained text with MOR and ORLA