SLHS 1150 Exam 2 UCONN Test
Questions with Correct/Verified
Answers 2026 Updated.
Broca's Aphasia - Answer some difficulty comprehending complex sentences
expressive
non fluent aphasia
Wernicke's Aphasia - Answer fluent aphasia
receptive
Tono / does not make sense
fluent speech
severe comprehension difficulty
What is a motor speech disorder? - Answer A problem with speech production stemming
from speech motor control.
It's a deficit of speech, not language (but it's brain related, so we look at it here in the semester)
Where do motor speech disorders come from? - Answer This is a central / peripheral nervous
system issue
Brain injury (stroke, TBI, Cerebral palsy)
Progressive neurological disorders (parkinson's, ALS, huntington's disease, MS)
what is a head injury - Answer trauma that leads to the injury of scalp, skull, and or brain
what is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) - Answer brain damage due to impact of external forces
open head injury (OHI) - Answer skull penetrated (often in combat) Phineas Gage
closed head injury (CHI) - Answer more common
concussions
brain is jolted, but skull in tact
,which head injury will kill you - Answer Increased Intracranial Pressure
can't relieve pressure because no hole other than the brain stem
which one will cause the most damage to the brain - Answer Diffuse Axonal Injury
Brain contusion - Answer A cell death accompanied by hemorrhage
the soft brain tissue is vulnerable
can occur distant form the point of impact
BRUISED brain
Increased intracranial pressure - Answer The volume of the intracranial vault: 80% brain
tissue, 10% blood, 10% cerebrospinal fluid
Problems: edema, excess blood, excess cerebrospinal fluid (all 3 of these would kill you)
Diffuse Axonal Injury - Answer Occurs in up to ½ of traumatic brain injuries. Its diffuse, the
damage is widespread.
Major cause of persisted vegetative state (comma). Involves the sharing of axons in the white
matter tracts
Stroke - Answer Ischemic stroke: Caused by decreased oxygen delivery to brain tissue
Occurs in trauma secondary to swelling
Hemorrhagic stroke: Caused by decreased oxygen delivery due to blood leaking
Occurs as both primary and secondary injuries
focal damage vs diffuse damage - Answer Focal damage (contusions) one area
Diffuse damage (coup - contrecoup baseball bat and brain) several areas
Cognitive - communicative impairments
Aphasia
Pragmatics - Answer Cognitive - communicative impairments: Deficits in thinking skills can
disrupt communication skills
Aphasia: Depends on location of focal lesion
, Pragmatics: Conversation, tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, emotional expression
What is the WHO ICF model - Answer Tried to give actual definitions in a working model to
words like handicapped, disability, impairment, and disorder. So they cannot be used
interchangeably
Disorder -> impairment -> disability -> handicap
Impairment - Answer Impairment: loss or abnormality of psychological or anatomical
function
Disability - Answer Disability: restriction or lack of ability to perform an ACTIVITY
Handicap - Answer Handicap: disadvantage that limits or prevents fulfillment of a ROLE
is sign language an AAC device - Answer YES
What does it mean to have complex communication needs? - Answer Candidate for AAC
device (not everyone uses them)
Something wrong with formulation or transmission and won't get better with intervention
Effective communication: multimodal: spoken, gesture, eye gaze
What is an AAC device? - Answer An alternative form of communication for one with a
speech, language, motor, or cognitive impairments
Not everyone uses AAC devices
How many components to an AAC device? what are they? - Answer 4
symbol, technique, strategy, aid
Symbol (AAC device) - Answer Representation of an idea or concept
• Acoustic: mores code, words
• graphic: written word, pictures
• manual: sign language
• tactile: physically manipulated things
Aid (AAC device) - Answer Device used to augment communication
• Word board
Questions with Correct/Verified
Answers 2026 Updated.
Broca's Aphasia - Answer some difficulty comprehending complex sentences
expressive
non fluent aphasia
Wernicke's Aphasia - Answer fluent aphasia
receptive
Tono / does not make sense
fluent speech
severe comprehension difficulty
What is a motor speech disorder? - Answer A problem with speech production stemming
from speech motor control.
It's a deficit of speech, not language (but it's brain related, so we look at it here in the semester)
Where do motor speech disorders come from? - Answer This is a central / peripheral nervous
system issue
Brain injury (stroke, TBI, Cerebral palsy)
Progressive neurological disorders (parkinson's, ALS, huntington's disease, MS)
what is a head injury - Answer trauma that leads to the injury of scalp, skull, and or brain
what is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) - Answer brain damage due to impact of external forces
open head injury (OHI) - Answer skull penetrated (often in combat) Phineas Gage
closed head injury (CHI) - Answer more common
concussions
brain is jolted, but skull in tact
,which head injury will kill you - Answer Increased Intracranial Pressure
can't relieve pressure because no hole other than the brain stem
which one will cause the most damage to the brain - Answer Diffuse Axonal Injury
Brain contusion - Answer A cell death accompanied by hemorrhage
the soft brain tissue is vulnerable
can occur distant form the point of impact
BRUISED brain
Increased intracranial pressure - Answer The volume of the intracranial vault: 80% brain
tissue, 10% blood, 10% cerebrospinal fluid
Problems: edema, excess blood, excess cerebrospinal fluid (all 3 of these would kill you)
Diffuse Axonal Injury - Answer Occurs in up to ½ of traumatic brain injuries. Its diffuse, the
damage is widespread.
Major cause of persisted vegetative state (comma). Involves the sharing of axons in the white
matter tracts
Stroke - Answer Ischemic stroke: Caused by decreased oxygen delivery to brain tissue
Occurs in trauma secondary to swelling
Hemorrhagic stroke: Caused by decreased oxygen delivery due to blood leaking
Occurs as both primary and secondary injuries
focal damage vs diffuse damage - Answer Focal damage (contusions) one area
Diffuse damage (coup - contrecoup baseball bat and brain) several areas
Cognitive - communicative impairments
Aphasia
Pragmatics - Answer Cognitive - communicative impairments: Deficits in thinking skills can
disrupt communication skills
Aphasia: Depends on location of focal lesion
, Pragmatics: Conversation, tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, emotional expression
What is the WHO ICF model - Answer Tried to give actual definitions in a working model to
words like handicapped, disability, impairment, and disorder. So they cannot be used
interchangeably
Disorder -> impairment -> disability -> handicap
Impairment - Answer Impairment: loss or abnormality of psychological or anatomical
function
Disability - Answer Disability: restriction or lack of ability to perform an ACTIVITY
Handicap - Answer Handicap: disadvantage that limits or prevents fulfillment of a ROLE
is sign language an AAC device - Answer YES
What does it mean to have complex communication needs? - Answer Candidate for AAC
device (not everyone uses them)
Something wrong with formulation or transmission and won't get better with intervention
Effective communication: multimodal: spoken, gesture, eye gaze
What is an AAC device? - Answer An alternative form of communication for one with a
speech, language, motor, or cognitive impairments
Not everyone uses AAC devices
How many components to an AAC device? what are they? - Answer 4
symbol, technique, strategy, aid
Symbol (AAC device) - Answer Representation of an idea or concept
• Acoustic: mores code, words
• graphic: written word, pictures
• manual: sign language
• tactile: physically manipulated things
Aid (AAC device) - Answer Device used to augment communication
• Word board
