Speech and Language

Question 1

Etiologies of Communcation Disorders include

Answer 1

Trauma
Vascular disturbance
Tumor/Infection
Environment (e.g., low SES, nutritional deficiency) **
Neurodegeneration (e.g., Parkinson’s, alcoholism)**
Genetic (e.g., velocardiofacial syndrome) **
Idiopathic (e.g., autism) **

Question 2

what are the subcortical areas involved in vocalization?

Answer 2

prefrontal cortex?

PAG

limbic system

caudal medullay

nucleus retroambiguous

Question 3

___ is complete loss of language,

Answer 3

global aphasia

Question 4

someone with global aphasia may still ahve control of

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facial expressions, hand gestures, and vocal intonations

Question 5

global aphasia can result from damage to

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Broca’s, Wernicke’s, and supramarginal gyrus

Question 6

•Conduction aphasia - problem ___

Answer 6

repeating words or phrases,

Question 7

___ and ___ are normal with conduction aphasia

Answer 7

anguage comprehension and oral expression

Question 8

conduction aphasia can be caused by damage to the

Answer 8

arcuate fasciculus, auditory cortex, insula, or supramarginal gyrus

Question 9

Anomic aphasia - difficulty in

Answer 9

fidning certain words

Question 10

using vague phrases like “thing” or “whatsit” may be a sign of

Answer 10

Anomic aphasia

Question 11

anomic aphasia may be from damage to the

Answer 11

to the angular gyrus or parietal lobe

Question 12

___ aphasia - from small lesions to the L. subcortical areas,

Answer 12

Subcortical

Question 13

___ aphasia has various sx

Answer 13

subcortical

Question 14

Transcortical Motor aphasia and brocas?

Answer 14

both are expressive aphasia

but transcortical motor can repeat long sentences, brocas can only repeat simple words

*

Question 15

____ - loss of articulation ability from damage to the motor system

Answer 15

Anarthria

Question 16

Alexia - loss of reading ability due to damage in___

Answer 16

L. occipital & parietal lobes

Question 17

alexia causes problems with ___ but not ___

Answer 17

problems with reading but not wriging

Question 18

ight hemisphere damage
(RHD) causes a variety of communication deficits involving the

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interpretation of
context.

Question 19

Indirect context disorders - difficulties

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interacting with your environment

Question 20

2 examples of indirect context disorders

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hemineglect and anosognosia

Question 21

, anosognosia - the ___ of such deficits

Answer 21

unawareness

Question 22

Direct context disorders - affect ___ and ___ directly

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communication and cognition

Question 23

direct context or pragmatic disorders can be further subdivided into disorders of: (3)

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(a) prosody (aprosodia)
(b) discourse organization
(c) comprehension of non-literal language

Question 24

Aprosodia - inability to use ___ and ___ to effectively express
emotions

Answer 24

intonation and stress

Question 25

t, Speech and behavior appear flat and emotionless. is a sign of

Answer 25

aprosodia

Question 26

Discourse organization disorders - difficulties implementing the

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rules that
govern language construction

Question 27

e 22q11 deletion is associated with

Answer 27

VCFS

Question 28

– 1/3rd
of ___ children meet criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Answer 28

VCFS

Question 29

Males are ___ times more likely to have an ASD than females

Answer 29

four

Question 30

20-30% of kids with autism develop ___

Answer 30

epilepsy

Question 31

t 90% of cases of autism are ___

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idiopathic (very small percentage is genetic)

Question 32

Most consistent findings in brain assocaited with autism changes in ___

Answer 32

cerebellum, amygdala

Question 33

pragmatics are the rules for

Answer 33

communciation or usage of language

Question 34

___ of information transmitted in conversation is nonverbal

Answer 34

90%

Question 35

prosody involves ___ changes

Answer 35

pitch

Question 36

brocas area is defined as

Answer 36

brodmann 44 and 45

Question 37

wernickes is in the ___

Answer 37

left temporal lobe on the superior temporal gyrus in most people

Question 38

wernickes is more associaed with ___

Answer 38

producing speech

Question 39

angular gyrus is involved in ___ processing

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semantic

Question 40

supramarginal gyrus is involve din

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phonological and articularoy processing of words

Question 41

homonyms and antynoyms light up ___ regions of the brain

Answer 41

different

Question 42

___ aphasia has the tendency to repeat words or phrases

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brocas

Question 43

___ hemisphere is more concerend with nonverbal language

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right

Question 44

excessive alcohol affects ___ area in particular that is related to language

Answer 44

brocas

Question 45

what areas are involved with vowels and syllables?

Answer 45

broca, motor cortex, premotor