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Neurologic Communication in Adults

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More than ______ people in the US have aphasia 2 million
_____ of individuals who have a stroke has aphasia 1/3
What is the most common etiology of Aphasia? Stroke
What is the rate of fluent speech? Fairly normal speaking rate
What is the rate of nonfluent speech? Slow rate
What is the rhythm/prosody of fluent speech? Normal
What is the rhythm/prosody of nonfluent speech? Abnormal
Fluent speech production is? Easy
Nonfluent speech production is? Effortful
Fluent speech has a normal utterance length without notable ______, how long is the utterance? Pauses, 5-7 words
Nonfluent speech has a short utterance length with _______ pauses, how long is the utterance? Long, less than 5-7 words
Fluency is influenced by what 6 things? Word retrieval, revisions/repetitions, phrase length, articulation, initiation, grammar
What are the fluent aphasias? Wernicke's aphasia, conduction aphasia, anomic aphasia, transcortical sensory aphasia
What are the nonfluent aphasias? Global aphasia, Broca's aphasia, transcortical motor aphasia, mixed transcortical aphasia
What are the most common fluent aphasias? Wernicke's aphasia, conduction aphasia, anomic aphasia
What are the most common nonfluent aphasias? Global aphasia, Broca's aphasia
Why are the transcortical aphasias less common? They are further away from the silvian fissure
Created by: RachelJClark
 

 



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