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Aphasia
Aphasia Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Purpose of the Quick Aphasia Battery | Provides a brief, multidimensional measure of language function in 15 minutes, bridging the gap between lengthy comprehensive batteries and quick screeners. The QAB identifies strengths and weaknesses across core language domains. |
| Purpose of the Inpatient Functional Communication Interview | Helps healthcare professionals identify and support patients with communication difficulties, especially those with communication disability. Most useful in acute care when patients need to understand their situation and communicate effectively. |
| What is agrammatism | Simplification of grammatical structure and omission of functional words, verbs and grammatical morphemes. It is associated with nonfluent aphasia. |
| Provide an example of agrammatism | Me and dad…hospital…yeah…doctors. |
| What is paragrammatism | Misuse of grammar (function/words, inflections, verbs) with well-constructed sentences and substitution of lexical items that results in logically and grammatically incoherent speech. |
| Provide an example of paragrammatism | I want everything to be so talk. |
| On the QAB a person may be scored as having both agrammatism and paragrammatism. However, _______ ratings are most important when there are no signs of or limited signs of _________. | paragrammatism, agrammatism. |
| What is anomia | Word finding failures, abandoned sentences, perseveration, effective circumlocution |
| What is a therapeutic alliance | A therapeutic alliance is a collaborative relationship between client and therapist involving bonds, goals, and tasks—built on trust, mutual understanding, and shared responsibility for therapeutic activities and outcomes. |
| What is circumlocution | Deliberate use of words other than the target to communicate an idea. |
| What is empty speech | Vague words and over-abundance of closed class words, ineffective circumlocution, utterances that are unclear in meaning and/or tangential. |
| What is the Conduit d’approche | Self-corrections that slowly reach the target utterance |
| What is pure alexia | Impairment in the way written words are visually perceived and analyzed during reading, specifically manifesting as an impairment in the simultaneous, parallel identification and processing of letters in a written word. |
| Characteristics of pure alexia | Pure alexia causes a disconnect between seeing a word and recognizing it. A person may not identify “apple” when reading it, yet if you spell it aloud, they can determine the word. Reading is selectively impaired while writing ability stays fully intact. |
| Pure alexia results from a lesion in which area? | Consistently associated with lesions in posterior cerebral artery, the left occipital lobe and the splenium of the corpus callosum. |
| Explain the concept “Not Aphasic By WAB.” | The WAB is not sensitive to mild aphasia, an aphasia quotient of 93.7-100 is “not aphasic by WAB (NABW) to supplement for those who do have aphasia and scored within this area. |
| Draw the Boston School Aphasia classification chart | DRAW |
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RachelJClark
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