Aphasia review

Aphasia...

• is an intellectual disorder.

• has a neurological cause.

• is a sensory disorder.

• is congenital.

Which of these areas is not affected with aphasia?

• Motor speech

• Spoken expression

• Auditory comprehension

• Reading comprehension

Your patient gets stuck on a specific phrase during conversation and often inserts this phrase, even when it is not appropriate. This is an example of...

• Circumlocution

• Paraphasia

• Perseveration

• Agrammatism

Which of the following is an example of a semantic paraphasia?

• Saying dog for cat

• Saying fort for fork

• Saying poon for spoon

• None of these

A neologistic paraphasia or neologism is...

• None of these.

• A substitution of a word that shares a phonemic feature of the target word

• A substitution of a whole word that is related to the target word

• A nonword error that may or may not be related to the target word

Circumlocution is often seen in patients with...

• comprehension deficits

• word-finding deficits

• reading comprehension deficits

• written expression deficits

Agrammatism is...

• a deficit in reading words aloud

• a deficit in writing words accurately

• a deficit in formulating and processing syntax

• difficulty comprehending words

Fluent aphasia is also known as...

• Receptive aphasia

• Expressive aphasia

• Anomic aphasia

• Apraxia

Nonfluent aphasia is also known as...

• Receptive aphasia

• Wernicke's aphasia

• Dysarthria

• Expressive aphasia

When treating an individual with aphasia...

• we do not treat what is important to the patient

• we treat the characteristics of their communication that impact the message

• we treat the subtype of aphasia they have

• we do not consider how their communication affects their function