Hearing Symposium

Decent Essays
Attending the 45th Annual Meta M. Downes Speech-Language and Hearing Symposium was very beneficial to my future career as a Speech Language Pathologist. The information retained from the symposium allowed me to connect that knowledge to current courses in my undergraduate major. For example, Dr. Ellis presentation on Aphasia Prognosis, Recovery Patterns and Outcomes correlated with the information that I am currently learning in Neuroscience course. Additionally, Dr. Clark presentation about Child Apraxia of Speech: Severity Matters, was very interesting because I wrote a teerm paper on this topic in my anatomy and physiology course. Both presentations gave me an opportunity to clearly connect knowledge from undergraduate courses to real life …show more content…
Ellis discussed the definition of a stroke, patterns of aphasia impairment, key considerations for aphasia, factors associated with stroke recovery, aphasia recovery patterns, factors associated with aphasia recovery, factors that influence aphasia recovery, and measurement issues. It was exciting when Dr. Ellis reviewed the definitions of a stroke and aphasia because we were recently discussing about that in my Neuroscience class. However, actually being able to view a post stroke patient’s recovery throughout years allowed me to connect the patient’s recovery pattern and recovery factors to the previous learn information on the types of stroke and aphasia. Understanding the factors associated with aphasia recovery will help me make a more accurate recovery time prognosis in the future.
When researching information about childhood apraxia for my term paper, I discovered the benefits with motor learning in therapy. Dr. Clark gave a descriptive detail summary on motor learning and video examples. Learning a more in depth definition of motor learning would be beneficial when working with children with childhood apraxia. Ultimately, comprehending the differences between childhood apraxia and dysarthria will be beneficial when diagnosing a patient with similar

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    I made CSUN’S Speech-Language Pathology graduate degree the goal that defined the trajectory of my undergraduate studies, work, and relevant activities. Having already spent three years at CSUN for my undergraduate studies in Speech-Language Pathology, I am certain it is the best place for me to continue my studies. The distinguished faculty at CSUN’s Speech-Language Pathology program not only possess field experience in all aspects of the profession, but go out of their way to ensure student success. Furthermore, CSUN’S program values both research and service. Ingrained in my mind is the memory of one of my professors telling us she provides therapy to underprivileged clients free of charge.…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    2. Chapter 5 of the Ogden text describes the cases of Luke and Beth, two individuals who both were diagnosed with aphasia, whose cases and lives are extremely different. After introducing the reader to Luke and Beth, Ogden briefly describes aphasia and the most common types. She mentions the popular trend to not classify aphasia, but rather to describe the symptoms being exhibited. Broca’s aphasia is then described; this is most frequently associated with expressive aphasia and is characterized by the nonfluency of speech, language impairment, a patient’s right arm or hand going numb, and occasionally oral apraxia.…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    G. B.: A Case Study

    • 1207 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Personal Information G.B. is a 74-year-old male that endured a left hemisphere cerebrovascular accident (CVA) after his involvement in a vehicular accident on his way to visit his daughter. The CVA resulted in a diagnosis of severe Broca’s aphasia. It has been seven months since the stroke occurred and G.B.’s symptoms have evolved. Medical Background G.B. suffered a stroke caused by damage to the left inferior frontal gyrus. The location of the damage resulted in the right hemiplegia which G.B. presents with.…

    • 1207 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When a person is the youngest member of her family, she has most likely never seen or paid any attention to the motor development of a child. This was the case for me and is also the reason for my interest in understanding the steps needed to get from a tiny wiggling baby to an adult with fully functional motor skills. My lack of assessable children is one of the reasons I chose to observe the infants and preschoolers whom receive care at Tutor Time. Another reason I felt going to a care facility would be best is because it allowed me to compare the development of one child to that of many others similar in age. I asked to observe the classrooms of infants and preschoolers because I wanted to see how extensive the growth truly is during…

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On one particular case, I reached out and asked the Hearing Office Director (HOD), if she was sure that they wanted to suspend an employee for 3 days. When Ms. Bellinger learned of this, she instructed the HOD to disregard everything I said. After this had happened, I told Ms. Bellinger that that was unprofessional; she replied, “I was unprofessional.” This all happened around February of 2016, shortly after I was hired. I showed this to my peers (Donald Hammond, Glenn Fields, Tim Hicks, and Carmen Morales), and I also showed it to another supervisor within ODAR Ms. Janice Hargrave.…

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The relationship between the hearing community and the deaf community has often been a lack of misunderstanding due to it’s values. Misconceptions and stereotypes are different from each other in its perspective and opposite point of view on the groups. Misconceptions and stereotypes are usually found in the social media basics. Misconceptions are used to determine groups as different ways like basis that are wrong facts and opinions. Stereotypes are useful to describe the truth and views of a person facts or statements in society.…

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Name of assessment The Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA) Reasoning for choice of assessment The Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA) measures the basic cognitive skills required for everyday function including orientation, visual perceptual and psychomotor abilities, problem-solving skills and thinking operations. The time needed to administer LOTCA is approximately 45 minutes (Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, 2011).…

    • 1409 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Carl could no longer talk, read, or write which is indication of Broca’s Aphasia. Broca’s Aphasia is a communication disorder affecting the ability of speech production and language comprehension. Post-stroke, he demonstrates substantial sentence production errors [agramatism], confusion of language content, and complications with language form. A Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) will assess the severity of his aphasia, develop treatment plans, and educate Carl’s family to enhance a healthy recovery. When given a year and a half to fully mend, he hoped for further improvement post-stroke.…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Reading Workshop: Perspective In a book you are reading this year, tell the perspective or point of view. Whose voice am I hearing? Whose story am I learning about?…

    • 169 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was glad that I attended this Deaf event and had the opportunity to get to know more about Deaf…

    • 554 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    One of the most reliable tasks to be done to localize the problem is to examine the speech and language abilities of the victim. On the day of the stroke, Taylor kept mentally rehearsing, “This is Jill, I need help” but when she finally called her colleague for help, she could not decipher his speech (claiming it sounded like a golden retriever) and when she spoke, she was shocked to find she could not speak intelligibly (Taylor, 2008, p. 56). Certain language tasks are specifically correlated to areas in the brain, allowing stroke localization when brain imaging cannot be done or is…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The movie that we viewed in class was My Beautiful Broken Brain. This film was mainly about Lotje Sodderland, and how she had experienced an intracerebral brain hemorrhage or a stroke. The film allows us to see what it was like along the road of recovery with her and all the struggles she underwent. A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident, is one of the most frequent cause of brain damage (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). There are multiple types of strokes (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016).…

    • 1449 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Aphasia Case Study

    • 220 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Participants were aged 50 years and older, had a diagnosis of expressive aphasia from a one-month post-acute cerebrovascular accident (CVA), and were residents of Fall Creek Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. The participants were recruited by convenience sampling from a population of 50 stroke-specific sub-acute residents. The participants signed an Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions approved informed consent form, to participate in an Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) program using low technology and high technology. Participants must have received a score of 80 percent or above on the Mississippi Aphasia Screening Tool in order to qualify. The data were collected on 3 total…

    • 220 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), also known as developmental apraxia of speech (DAS), is a childhood speech sound disorder caused by the impairment of the motor movements of the articulators related to speech production. This impairment impacts the coordination and accuracy of the muscles used to coordinate the speech production (Vinson, 2001). This disease differs from dysarthria, which impacts the execution of the utterance instead of the planning and programming of the speech movement. The prevalence of this disorder ranges from as low as 1 out of 1000 children per birth to as high as 3-4 children per 100 children (Dale & Hayden, 2013). All of the children who has been diagnosed with CAS are at risk for several speech and language concerns…

    • 853 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Human Hearing range is from 20Hz to 20kHz (20,000Hz). Hearing and sound plays a very important role in our lives. It allows us to communicate with each other. Music helps us express our feelings and share our cultures with the whole world. Sound allows us to hear, react to fear, and to hear different kinds of music.…

    • 893 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays