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Different areas associated with language
- wernickes area
- auditory perception
- somatosensory perception
- primary motor function- brocas area
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What is dysarthria?
- errors in the production of sound, but language is still intact
- slow and mumbled
- failiure of coordination of respiration, vocal cords, tongue, and lips
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What is dysarthria caused from?
- cerebellar
- midbrain
- tract
- cranial nerve damage
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What are some hints when interacting with patients that have dysarthria?
- ask patients to repeat and speak slowly
- don't finish sentences for them
- give feedback when you understand
- ask patient to gesture/write
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What is it like to be aphasic?
- difficult to talk, struggling to get every word out
- leave small words out and get stuck on certain words/phrases
- person talks, it's just difficult to understand
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What is expressive/non-fluent aphasia?
- motor plan for speed is lost
- comprehension of language is intact and aware of speaking problem
- profane language or 1st language may be intact
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What is damaged with expressive aphasia?
- brocas area
- typically dominant hemisphere
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Hints to interact with patients that have expressive aphasia:
- ask questions with yes or no answers
- use gestures and facial experssions
- tell them what you understand
- ask them to repeat
- do not interrupt
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What is receptive/fluent aphasia?
- motor production of sounds intact, but doesn't understand what they're saying
- perception of sounds distorted
- severe defecit in comprehension but words come easy
- reading and writing compromised
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Hints to intereact with patients that have receptive aphasia:
- speak maturely- encourage normal language
- don't talk louder and minimize distractions
- stand in visual field
- don't talk about the person
- LISTEN
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What is conduction aphasia?
- motor production of sounds and perception of sounds intact
- fluent but use subsitituions
- understand language
- mild writing impairment
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Where is the problem with conduction aphasia?
- feedback between brocas and wernickes area are reduced
- damage to arcuate fasiculus
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What is damaged in receptive aphasia?
wernickes area
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What is global aphasia?
- both motor production of speech and comprehension are lost
- severe deficit of expression and comprehension, reading/writing
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What is damaged in global aphasia?
brocas and wernickes
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What is anomia?
inability to retrieve names
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What is circumlocution
talk around forgetten words
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What is alexia?
can't read, but all other language functions are intact
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What is automatic speech?
singing or swearing is intact, but all other language is gone
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