WHO-ICF Model - correct answer ✔✔A classification system that describes disorders in terms of
resultant limitations placed upon the individual.
[4] components:
1. Limitations in Body Function and Structure
(underlying damage to psychological, physiological, or anatomic structures or functions)
i.e. word finding probs, agrammatism, attentional deficit
2. Activity Limitations
-Functional consequences of the limitations of body function and structures.
i.e. word finding probs --> unable to add ideas/turn-take in convos.
3. Participation Limitations
-One's well being and social consequences that arise from having comm. disorders.
i.e. leading meetings, drive to work, etc.
4. Contextual Factors
-social, familial, educational, vocational, or other role disadvantage associated w/ the disability.
Aphasia Definition - correct answer ✔✔•Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder
caused by brain damage, characterized by an
impairment of language modalities: speaking,
listening, reading and writing
•Aphasia is neurogenic
,•Aphasia is acquired
•Aphasia is NOT a problem of sensation or intellect
- correct answer ✔✔types of CVA stroke
_______: occlusive mechanisms that block blood flow through an artery.
_______: rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
left, right - correct answer ✔✔Which hemisphere?
______ hemisphere
-sequential and analytical analysis
-LANGUAGE
______hemisphere
-simultaneous analysis/synthetic
(visual-spatial skills, facial recognition, drawing, music
-language discourse and pragmatics
(organizing a narrative- selection and assembling the elements of what we want to say)
(understanding jokes)
(prosody- rhythm, stress, emotion in tone of voice)
They supply different regions of the brain that affect different areas of speech and language. For example
the middle cerebral artery (esp left) supplies regions of the cerebral cortex involved in the processing of
language and motor planning and execution of speech production - correct answer ✔✔How does the
blood supply/artery system affect language areas in the brain?
Cognition, linguistic, and pragmatic - correct answer ✔✔What are the components of language function
, ASSESSMENT - correct answer ✔✔Components of _______ include:
- determine presence of communication impairment
- identify exacerbating factors
- evaluation of person's QoL
- determine intervention goals
1. INTERVIEW
2. CONVERSATIONAL SAMPLE/READING
3. STANDARDIZED TESTS
4. INFORMAL TESTS
Lexical, Sublexical (phonological) - correct answer ✔✔TWO ROUTES OF READING SYSTEM
1. ____________ Route:
-Printed words are directly linked to meaning (learned words and irregular words)
• e.g., "yacht" or "colonel" or "pint")
2. _______ "Phonological" Route
-See the word, sound it out --> understand meaning
(grapheme-to-phoneme)
-usually apply for nonwords or new/foreign words
Phonological, deep, surface - correct answer ✔✔What are the three types of Alexia?
Deep - correct answer ✔✔______ Alexia:
-related to phonological alexia
(semantic paralexia)
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