| Question |
Answer |
| the impairment of the ability to recognize a stimulus even though sensory transmission is intact |
agnosia |
| disorders affecting neuromuscular execution of speech movements; impairments of the ability to execute movement with the muscles used for speaking |
dysarthria |
| disorders affecting motor planning and/or programming for speech without neuromuscular deficit |
apraxia of speech |
| a broad term for the problem of finding words |
anomia |
| word substitution errors produced unintentionally |
paraphasias |
| nonfluent aphasia |
patients produce fewer words than normal |
| certain types of linguistic units tend to drop out of utterances; "telegramese" |
agrammatism |
| patients talk with an easy flow of complete sentences |
fluent aphasia |
| speech makes little sense; word salad or jibberish |
jargon |
| patient's speech sounds like a confused version of the speaker's language |
semantic jargon |
| patient's speech sounds like a strange language invented by the patient |
neologistic jargon |
| damaged tissue |
lesion |
| lesions in an anterior region produce _____ |
nonfluent aphasia |
| lesions in a posterior regions produce ______ |
fluent aphasia |
| a selective impairment of the cognitive system specialized for comprehending and formulating language, leaving other cognitive capacities relatively intact |
aphasia |
| commences upon admission to a hospital |
acute care |
| a bridge between hospitalization and independence at home (focus on rehabilitation) |
subacute care |
| provided for long-term residual impairments |
chronic care |
| functional consequences of impairment; activity limitation |
disability |
| social consequences of disability; participation limitation |
handicap |
| disordered system |
impairment |
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