APHASIA (PRAXIS) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | PRAXIS APHASIA STUDY GUIDE & EXAM PREP
2026/2027
2/3 of people with aphasia are how old? - ANS ✔✔65+
What are 4 causes of aphasia? - ANS ✔✔- stroke
- brain trauma
- intercranial tumor
- infection
What are the 2 types of strokes? - ANS ✔✔ischemic and hemorrhagic
What is the cause of ischemic strokes? - ANS ✔✔blocked or interrupted blood supply to brain
Blockages of blood to the brain can cause these 2 kinds of arterial diseases: - ANS
✔✔thrombosis & embolism
A collection of blood material that blocks the flow of blood is: - ANS ✔✔thrombosis
What is thrombosis? - ANS ✔✔collection of blood material that blocks flow of blood
A traveling mass of tissue/debris from a tumor that gets lodged in a smaller artery and blocks
blood flow is: - ANS ✔✔embolism
What is embolism? - ANS ✔✔mass of debris/tissue/clot that gets stuck in a smaller artery and
blocks blood flow
, What is the cause of hemorrhagic strokes? - ANS ✔✔bleeding in brain due to ruptured blood
vessels
Hemorrhagic strokes can either be ..... - ANS ✔✔intracerebral or extracerebral
Intracerebral hemorrhagic strokes occur where? - ANS ✔✔within the brain
Extracerebral hemmorhagic strokes occur where? - ANS ✔✔within the meninges
Name 4 types of non-fluent aphasias: - ANS ✔✔Broca's, transcortical motor, mixed
transcortical, global
Name 5 characteristics of Broca's aphasia: - ANS ✔✔1) non-fluent, effortful speech
2) short phrases
3) agrammatic speech
4) right-sided weakness
5) impaired confrontation naming
Where is Broca's area located? - ANS ✔✔posterior inferior gyrus of left hem
Transcortical motor aphasia is caused by lesions in..... - ANS ✔✔anterior superior frontal lobe,
often above or below Broca's area
Name 5 characteristics of transcortical motor aphasia: - ANS ✔✔1) speechlessness
2) attempts to initiate speech with help of motor activities (clapping, head nodding)
3) absent/reduced spontaneous speech
4) echolalia and perseveration
2026/2027
2/3 of people with aphasia are how old? - ANS ✔✔65+
What are 4 causes of aphasia? - ANS ✔✔- stroke
- brain trauma
- intercranial tumor
- infection
What are the 2 types of strokes? - ANS ✔✔ischemic and hemorrhagic
What is the cause of ischemic strokes? - ANS ✔✔blocked or interrupted blood supply to brain
Blockages of blood to the brain can cause these 2 kinds of arterial diseases: - ANS
✔✔thrombosis & embolism
A collection of blood material that blocks the flow of blood is: - ANS ✔✔thrombosis
What is thrombosis? - ANS ✔✔collection of blood material that blocks flow of blood
A traveling mass of tissue/debris from a tumor that gets lodged in a smaller artery and blocks
blood flow is: - ANS ✔✔embolism
What is embolism? - ANS ✔✔mass of debris/tissue/clot that gets stuck in a smaller artery and
blocks blood flow
, What is the cause of hemorrhagic strokes? - ANS ✔✔bleeding in brain due to ruptured blood
vessels
Hemorrhagic strokes can either be ..... - ANS ✔✔intracerebral or extracerebral
Intracerebral hemorrhagic strokes occur where? - ANS ✔✔within the brain
Extracerebral hemmorhagic strokes occur where? - ANS ✔✔within the meninges
Name 4 types of non-fluent aphasias: - ANS ✔✔Broca's, transcortical motor, mixed
transcortical, global
Name 5 characteristics of Broca's aphasia: - ANS ✔✔1) non-fluent, effortful speech
2) short phrases
3) agrammatic speech
4) right-sided weakness
5) impaired confrontation naming
Where is Broca's area located? - ANS ✔✔posterior inferior gyrus of left hem
Transcortical motor aphasia is caused by lesions in..... - ANS ✔✔anterior superior frontal lobe,
often above or below Broca's area
Name 5 characteristics of transcortical motor aphasia: - ANS ✔✔1) speechlessness
2) attempts to initiate speech with help of motor activities (clapping, head nodding)
3) absent/reduced spontaneous speech
4) echolalia and perseveration
