Dementia Quiz – Medical Speech Pathology – Cognitive Communication Disorders Review
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What cognitive processes/areas are encompassed by Cognitive-Communicative Disorders of
Dementia? - ✔✔- learning and memory
- reasoning
- executive functioning
- attention
The incidence of dementia has the potential to __________ by year 2050. - ✔✔Double
SLPs in rural or urban settings tend to serve persons with dementia more often? - ✔✔Rural
What percent of persons in a long-term care have a diagnosis of some type of dementia? -
✔✔48.5% (about 50%)
What are some avenues for establishing competence prior to working with persons with CCD
2nd to Dementia? - ✔✔- education prior to providing service
- supervised or mentored clinical experience
- continuing professional development opportunities
What areas must a SLP serving persons with dementia-related communication disorders be
competent in? - ✔✔- identification
- assessment
- intervention
- consultation & collaborating with other professionals
- advocating for PWD
,What is a direct intervention? - ✔✔SLPs provide services with patients individually or in a
group in order to "maintain residual cognitive and communicative function and to prevent
excessive response to disability and learned helplessness"
Direct intervention techniques depend on what? - ✔✔- repetition and active involvement
during learning
Examples of direct treatments - ✔✔- spaced retrieval training
- stimulation techniques (priming)
What is indirect interventions? - ✔✔- attempt to maximize the communicative and cognitive
abilities of individuals with dementia-related communication disorders through caregiver
training, environmental modifications, and developing therapeutic routines and activities
Examples of linguistic modifications to facilitate communication - ✔✔- avoid sarcasm
- reduce use of pronouns
Examples of environmental modifications - ✔✔- improve lighting
- decrease distractions
Direct treatment techniques organized from top being most utilized to least utilized - ✔✔-
specific verbal instruction
- cognitive stimulation
- memory wallet/book
- spaced retrieval
- errorless learning
- visualization
- vanishing cues
, - technology applications
- montessori
- audio-assisted memory training
- preview questions read state test
T or F. The most and least frequently used direct treatment methods by SLPs were consistent
across years of clinical experience - ✔✔True
- SLPs across all levels of experience reported using the same direct interventions
Indirect treatment techniques organized from top being most utilized to least utilized - ✔✔-
caregiver training
- prospective memory aides
- linguistic manipulations
- life history video
Additional indirect treatments - ✔✔- environmental control of distractions
- environmental interventions
- FOCUSED communication strategies
- signs in environment
- printed life history
Additional environmental modifications interventions used by SLPs and other professionals
include: - ✔✔- animal assistance
- music
- toy/doll
- aromatherapy
- eden alternative
Material
What cognitive processes/areas are encompassed by Cognitive-Communicative Disorders of
Dementia? - ✔✔- learning and memory
- reasoning
- executive functioning
- attention
The incidence of dementia has the potential to __________ by year 2050. - ✔✔Double
SLPs in rural or urban settings tend to serve persons with dementia more often? - ✔✔Rural
What percent of persons in a long-term care have a diagnosis of some type of dementia? -
✔✔48.5% (about 50%)
What are some avenues for establishing competence prior to working with persons with CCD
2nd to Dementia? - ✔✔- education prior to providing service
- supervised or mentored clinical experience
- continuing professional development opportunities
What areas must a SLP serving persons with dementia-related communication disorders be
competent in? - ✔✔- identification
- assessment
- intervention
- consultation & collaborating with other professionals
- advocating for PWD
,What is a direct intervention? - ✔✔SLPs provide services with patients individually or in a
group in order to "maintain residual cognitive and communicative function and to prevent
excessive response to disability and learned helplessness"
Direct intervention techniques depend on what? - ✔✔- repetition and active involvement
during learning
Examples of direct treatments - ✔✔- spaced retrieval training
- stimulation techniques (priming)
What is indirect interventions? - ✔✔- attempt to maximize the communicative and cognitive
abilities of individuals with dementia-related communication disorders through caregiver
training, environmental modifications, and developing therapeutic routines and activities
Examples of linguistic modifications to facilitate communication - ✔✔- avoid sarcasm
- reduce use of pronouns
Examples of environmental modifications - ✔✔- improve lighting
- decrease distractions
Direct treatment techniques organized from top being most utilized to least utilized - ✔✔-
specific verbal instruction
- cognitive stimulation
- memory wallet/book
- spaced retrieval
- errorless learning
- visualization
- vanishing cues
, - technology applications
- montessori
- audio-assisted memory training
- preview questions read state test
T or F. The most and least frequently used direct treatment methods by SLPs were consistent
across years of clinical experience - ✔✔True
- SLPs across all levels of experience reported using the same direct interventions
Indirect treatment techniques organized from top being most utilized to least utilized - ✔✔-
caregiver training
- prospective memory aides
- linguistic manipulations
- life history video
Additional indirect treatments - ✔✔- environmental control of distractions
- environmental interventions
- FOCUSED communication strategies
- signs in environment
- printed life history
Additional environmental modifications interventions used by SLPs and other professionals
include: - ✔✔- animal assistance
- music
- toy/doll
- aromatherapy
- eden alternative
