Agraphia

Question 1

what are the 2 types of agraphias

Answer 1

-central
-peripheral

Question 2

what are the types of central agraphias

Answer 2

• phonological
  -deep
  -lexical
  -surface

Question 3

what are types of peripheral agraphias

Answer 3

-allographic disorders
-apraxic agraphia

Question 4

define phonological agraphia

Answer 4

difficulties in sounding out words with relative preservation of ability to write real words

Question 5

central agraphias are associated with damage to

Answer 5

perisylvian lang areas (broca’s area, wernickes, area, and supramarginal gyrus)

Question 6

deficits in lexical semantic or non-lexical spelling routes, grapheme buffer

Answer 6

central agraphia

Question 7

T/F peripheral agraphia is lang based

Answer 7

FALSE

more about physical writing

Question 8

T/F central agraphia is lang based

Answer 8

true

Question 9

which agraphia has deficits in both phonological and lexical skills, more deficits for abstract nouns, grammatical functor words

Answer 9

deep agraphria

Question 10

deep agraphia is more severe than

Answer 10

phonological agraphia

Question 11

which agraphia has difficulties in visaulizing spelling of words with relative preservation of sounding them out

Answer 11

lexical agraphia

Question 12

which agraphia has more erros for uncommon words, grammar and sentence writing tend to be preserved, seen in lesions of left extrasylvian temporo-parietal regions

Answer 12

lexical agraphia

Question 13

which agraphia is a written counterpart of surface dyslexia

Answer 13

surface agraphia

Question 14

is central or peripheral agraphia characterized by losss of orthographic rules and spelling is performed based on phonological knowledge

Answer 14

central agraphia

Question 15

phonetic spelling errors may be common in

Answer 15

central agraphia

Question 16

allographic disorders is associated with damage to

Answer 16

left parieto-occipital region

Question 17

people with allographic disorders may have inability to

Answer 17

active or select appropriate letter shapes with relatively intact oral spelling

Question 18

clients with allographic disorder have difficulties with

Answer 18

writing upper or lowercase letters or they may produce case-mixing errors

Question 19

T/F client with allographic disorders may produce well-formed letter substitution errors with physical similarity to the target sounds

Answer 19

TRUE

Question 20

A PERIPHERAL diosrder due to damage to graphic motor program

Answer 20

apraxic agraphia

Question 21

characterized by poor letter formation that cannot be explained by sensorimotor impairment or damage to basal ganglia or cerebellum

Answer 21

apraxic agraphia

Question 22

T/F oral spelling will not be preserved in apraxic agraphia

Answer 22

FALSE

it can be preserved

Question 23

what are typical errors of apraxic agraphia

Answer 23

spatial distortion, illegible handwriting

Question 24

list agraphia assessments

Answer 24

-graphomotor tasks
(tasks involving writing with a pen/pencil): check about errors, letter formation, self-correction attempts
-Linguistic writing tasks: picture description, language tasks
-Automatic writing: signing name, writing name and address
-Propositional writing: writing about a topic, picture description
-Written confrontation naming: writing name of an object/picture when represented
-Writing to dictation
-Narrative writing
-Functional writing: check writing, emails, text messages, notes

Question 25

treatment for central agraphias

Answer 25

-retraining of lexical-semantic processes
-Retraining of nonlexical spelling processes
-Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) program
-Copy and Recall Treatment
-Tactile-Kinesthetic approach
-Semantic Feature analysis

Question 26

treatment for peripheral agraphia and apraxic agraphia

Answer 26

-Focus on retraining of graphic motor programs
-Focus on retraining ability to hold a pen/pencil to write effectively, letter formation, ability to draw, copy and write figures, numbers, and other symbols