Carlson Ch. 14

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Cerebrovascular accident

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a “stroke”; brain damage caused by occlusion or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain

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Aphasia

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difficulty in producing or comprehending speech not produced by deafness or a simple motor deficit; caused by brain damage

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Broca’s aphasia

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a form of aphasia characterized by agrammatism, anomia, and extreme difficulty in speech articulation

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Function word

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a preposition, article or other word that conveys little of the meaning of a sentence but is important in specifying its grammatical structure

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Content word

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a noun, verb, adjective or adverb that conveys

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Agrammatism

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One of the usual symptoms of Broca’s aphasia; a difficulty in comprehending or properly employing a grammatical devices, such as verb endings and word

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Anomia

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difficulty in finding (remembering) the appropriate word to describe an object, action, or attribute; one of the symptoms of aphasia

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Wernicke’s area

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a region of auditory association corte on the left temporal lobe of humans, which is important in the comprehension of words and the production of meaningful speech

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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a form of aphasia characterized by poor speech comprehension and fluent but meaningless speech

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Pure word deafness

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the ability to hear, to speak and usually to read and write without being able to comprehend the meaning of speech; caused by damage to Wernicke’s area or disruption of auditory input to this region

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

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A speech disorder in which a person has difficulty comprehending speech and producing meaningful spontaneous speech but can repeat speech; caused by damage to the region of the brain posterior to Wernicke’s area

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Arcuate fasciculus

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a bundle of axons that connects Wernicke’s area with Broca’s area; damage causes conduction aphasia

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Conduction aphasia

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An aphasia characterized by inability to repeat words that are heard but the ability to speak normally and comprehend the speech of others

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Circumlocution

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A strategy by which people w/ anomia find alternative ways to say something when they are unable to think of the most appropriate wrd

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Prosody

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the use of changes in intonation and emphasis to convey meaning in speech besides that specified by the particular words; an important means of communication of emotion

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Pure alexia

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loss of the ability to read w/o loss of the ability to write; produced by brain damage

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Whole-word reading

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Reading by recongnizing a word as a whole; “sight reading”

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Phoenetic reading

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reading by decoding the phonetic significance of letter strings; “sound reading”

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Surface dyslexia

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A reading disorder in which a person can read words phonetically but has difficulty reading irregularly spelled words by the WW method

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Phonological dyslexia

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A reading disorder in which a person can read familiar words but has difficulty reading unfamiliar words or pronouncable nonwords

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Orthographic dysgraphia

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a writing disorder in which the person can spell regularly spelled words but not irregularly spelled ones

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Developmental dyslexia

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a reading difficulty in a person of normal intelligence and perceptual ability; of genetic origin or caused by pre/perinatal factors