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16 Cards in this Set
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Adult Language Impairment
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aphasia
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Aphasia
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acquired language impairment from a cerebral vascular accident, aka stroke.
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Aphasia stroke two kinds
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Hemorrhagic (bleeding in brain) Ischemic (blood blockage)
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Two kinds of aphasia
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fluent and nonfluent.
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Fluent aphasia
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problem with speech comprehension – make long, meaningless sentences. Damaged Wernicke’s.
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Non-fluent aphasia
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problem with speech output- short sentences. Damaged Broca’s.
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Non fluent aphasia characteristics
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Shorter sentences that are choppy, short, telegraphic (function words), anomia (word retrieval problems [nom= name therefore hard finding name), paraphasic errors
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Two types of paraphasia:
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substituting words or substituting sound; i.e. using “chair” for sofa or calling a sofa “tofa”
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Aphasia prognosis
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Depends on size, type, site, general health
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Aphasia treatment
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Get back as much language as possible, Language tasks, Compensatory strategies
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Dementia
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gradual onset and is a damaged central nervous system disorder
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TBI (traumatic brain injury)
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injury to the brain from an external impact.
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What disorder is common in military?
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TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Two kinds of TBI
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Open head injury and closed head injury
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Open head injury
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TBI. Skull is open and penetrated, Injury only in one area
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Closed head injury
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TBI. Head is still intact, but brain is still damaged. Brain will move and therefore damage is in more than one area
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