SIMUCASE APHASIA FINAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS

SIMUCASE APHASIA FINAL QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS


Characteristics of Wernicke's Aphasia - ans-- xc xc xc xc xcxc




Language Comprehension is severely, even profoundly, disrupted
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-Expressive speech-language is fluent, effortless, and may be copious xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc




-Repetition is impaired (reflects auditory comprehension) xc xc xc xc xc




-Reading and writing reflect auditory comprehension and verbal expression
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A person with Wernicke's aphasia may be profoundly unaware of their inability to understan
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d or of their poor communication
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Wernicke's language comprehension - ans- xc xc xc xcxc




May fail to understand even simple spoken or written information
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wernicke's expressive speech-language (fluent, effortful, and may be copious) - ans--
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Lots of semantic and phonemic paraphasias to the point of neologisms and jargon, "word s
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alad."
-Syntactically correct, even lengthy utterances, but meaning is obscured xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc




-May or may not demonstrate word-retrieval pauses, searches
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Dan Aphasia Characteristics observed: - ans--Fluent but disorganized speech
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-Paraphasias, neologisms, jargon xc xc




-Impaired auditory comprehension (especially complex directions)
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-Impaired naming and word retrieval xc xc xc xc




-Limited awareness of errors xc xc xc




Dan Relative Strengths - ans-Yes/no responses
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Gestures and pointing xc xc




Eye contact
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Occasional meaningful single words xc xc xc




Dan Treatment approach - ans--Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)
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-A-FROM framework (focus on participation, environment, personal factors)
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-Spouse heavily involved for carryover and generalization
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Key interventions for Dan - ans--Choral Reading
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-Article Reading xc




-Writing - Anagram Copy Treatment (ACT)
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-Scripted Conversation xc