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What is the name for impairment in speech articulation, and what causes it?
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Dysarthria - brain dysfunction causes problems in coordination required to make speech sounds
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What is circumlocution?
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A coping mechanism used by people with anomia - they try to substitute related words or phrases for the words they can't find
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What is the condition in which the patient substitutes or mis-orders the speech sounds in a target word?
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Phonemic paraphasia
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How much can the sounds of a word be altered before the words become incomprehensible to most people?
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around 50% - more than this constitutes a neologism
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If a patient has impaired ability to repeat speech, would he or she be able to repeat a string of numbers backward?
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Yes
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When asked to generate words that belong to the same category as quickly as possible, how many words can most people produce? How many can people with impaired fluency produce?
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Normal: around 18
Impaired: around 10 |
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What are four components of fluency in conversational speech?
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1. phrase length - normally 7 words or longer
2. connector words 3. effort - usually speech production takes very little 4. Prosody |
