Communication Disorders Part 2

Front 1

Where are the visual and visual association areas located?

Back 1

- Occipital Lobe

Front 2

Where is the sensory/motor area located?

Back 2

- Frontal and Parietal lobe near the central sulcus

Front 3

Where is the auditory area found in the brain?

Back 3

- Temporal lobe

Front 4

Where is Broca’s area located in the brain?

Back 4

- The frontal lobe

Front 5

Where is the auditory association (including Wernicke’s area)?

Back 5

- In the temporal lobe
- The Wernicke’s area is located in the left hemisphere

Front 6

What are the closed types of brain lesions?

Back 6

- Meninges stay intact
- Indirect damage to brain
- Coup-contrecoup

Front 7

What are the open lesions of the brain?

Back 7

- Lacerations
- Contusions
- Damages to nerves because of movement
- Bruising

Front 8

What language problems are usually affected by trauma injuries?

Back 8

- Linguistic problems usually aren’t affected
- Problems are usually cognitive
- Can find:

o Dysarthria
o Mutism

Front 9

What communication problems can occur from head trauma injuries?

Back 9

- Language confusion
- Difficulty understanding-linked to attention
- Reading and writing
- Word finding problem
- Pragmatic problems such as:
o Can’t inhibit responses
o Turn taking
o Staying on topic, being coherent, being precise

Front 10

What characterizes dementia?

Back 10

- Significant decline compared to past abilities
- Progressive start
- Continuous cognitive decline
- No delirium, no depression, schizophrenia

Front 11

What are possible causes of dementia?

Back 11

- Metabolic problems
- Vascular problems
- Diseases such as Alzheimer’s

Front 12

What communication signs associated with mild Alzheimer’s?

Back 12

- Word finding and naming problems
- Mild comprehension problems
- Some incoherence
- Repetition of ideas
- Sentences, sounds etc. are o.k.

Front 13

What communication signs are associated with severe Alzheimer’s?

Back 13

- Nonsense words, jargon
- Significant word finding problems
- Comprehension affected
- Writing problems
- Echolalia
- Social conversation affected in late stages
- Mutism

Front 14

What the signs of a nondominant hemisphere communication problem?

Back 14

- Language relatively intact
- Difficulty interpreting and expression facial expressions, emotion
- Expressing understanding intonation
- Difficulty with abstract content
- Comprehension of complex verbal information
- Understanding metaphors, proverbs, indirect information
- Digressions, vague inappropriate

Front 15

Possible causes of developmental language delay:

Back 15

- Genetic or chromosomal disorders
- Primary sensory deficits
- Neurological conditions
o Neurological conditions cerebral palsy
o Exposed to drugs or alcohol (fetal alcohol syndrome)
o Autism and pervasive developmental disorder
o Specific language impairment

Front 16

What are the different types of hearing disorders?

Back 16

- Conductive hearing loss
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Mixed hearing loss

Front 17

Conductive hearing loss:

Back 17

- Sound can’t get through outer and middle ear
- Bone conduction is better than air conduction

Front 18

Sensorineural hearing loss:

Back 18

- Damage to inner ear or auditory nerve: bone and air conduction loss are the same
- Distortion in the sounds