SLHS 115 Exam 3 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 Rated A+
How many adults identified with a language disorder at age 5 still have difficulty? - Answers 70%
What do adults continuously refine? - Answers Use, Content, Form
Use - Answers Code-switching! Narratives will continue to improve
Content - Answers Some words will fade while others are added. Deficits in accuracy and speed of word
retrieval/naming
Form - Answers Continues to acquire some aspects of syntax. Written language becomes more complex
than spoken. Complex sentence construction declines with advanced age
Central Nervous Sytem (CNS) - Answers Your brain and spinal cord communicate with the rest of the
body through nerves. (Most affected with FAS)
Four lobes of the brain: - Answers frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
Aphasia - Answers language impairment which occurs as a result of an accident or stroke
Aphasia Affects: - Answers Over 1 million Americans. Half a million Americans annually. About 100,000
become aphasic/year.
Aphasia Difficulties: - Answers Listening, speaking, reading, writing, language-related functions
(arithmetic, gesturing, telling time)
Aphasia Severity: - Answers Depends on the cause, location/extent/age of brain injury/ general health of
patient
Neural infections, degenerative neural disorders, dementia, and tumors - Answers These will have
"symptoms" of aphasia, but not technically be aphasia
Primary Progressive Aphasia - Answers Degenerative disorder of language, with preservation of other
cognitive functions. Progresses over time to the inability to speak, but comprehension is preserved
(usually starts @ 50)
Ischemic Stroke - Answers Complete or partial blockage of arteries. Best improvement is seen in the first
few weeks and slows down after 3 months
Transient Ischemic Attack - Answers Also known as a mini stroke or TIA. Symptoms mimic a stroke and
can be a warning sign of increased likelihood a stroke in the future.
Hemorrhagic Stroke - Answers Weakened artery walls burst.
Aneurysm - Answers Saclike bulging in weekend artery wall
Arteriovenous Malformation - Answers rare, poorly formed arteries and veins with weak walls
, Hemorrhagic Stroke Improvement - Answers The best at the end of the first month and into the second
month
Aphasia Characteristics (Expressive Language) - Answers Reduced Vocab, omission/addition of words,
stereotypic speech, delayed or reduced output of speech, hyperfluent speech, word substitutions, and
word finding problems
Aphasia Characteristics (Receptive Language) - Answers An impaired interpretation of linguistic
information
Hemiparesis - Answers Left or right side of the body is weak
Hemiplegia - Answers Left or right side of the body is paralyzed
Hemisensory Impairment - Answers Reduced sensory info on left or right side of the body
Hemianopsia - Answers Blindness in the right visual field of each eye
Dysphagia - Answers Swallowing problems
Agnosia - Answers Problems interpreting sensory information (visual, auditory)
Agrammatism - Answers Omission of grammatical elements in speech (articles, prepositions,
morphemes)
Agrpahia - Answers Difficulty writing
Alexia - Answers Difficulty reading
Anomia - Answers Difficulty naming items
Jargon - Answers Meaningless speech that sounds like typical speech (same intonation)
Neologism - Answers Novel words which are made-up by and used by individuals with aphasia
Paraphasia - Answers Word substitutions: Car for Truck (Semantic)/ Tar for Car (Phonological)
Fluent Aphasia - Answers Word substitutions, neologisms, and lots of verbal output (hyper-fluent
speech). Found generally in the parietal left lobe
Wernicke's - Answers Paraphrasias, jargon/neologisms, impaired speech comprehension, reading,
naming, and repetition
Anomic - Answers Impaired word retrieval in speech and writing/impaired speech comprehension, but
other language comprehensions are okays
Conduction - Answers Paraphrasias, impaired naming and repetition, syntax and reading comprehension
is okay, speech comprehension is often okay too
How many adults identified with a language disorder at age 5 still have difficulty? - Answers 70%
What do adults continuously refine? - Answers Use, Content, Form
Use - Answers Code-switching! Narratives will continue to improve
Content - Answers Some words will fade while others are added. Deficits in accuracy and speed of word
retrieval/naming
Form - Answers Continues to acquire some aspects of syntax. Written language becomes more complex
than spoken. Complex sentence construction declines with advanced age
Central Nervous Sytem (CNS) - Answers Your brain and spinal cord communicate with the rest of the
body through nerves. (Most affected with FAS)
Four lobes of the brain: - Answers frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
Aphasia - Answers language impairment which occurs as a result of an accident or stroke
Aphasia Affects: - Answers Over 1 million Americans. Half a million Americans annually. About 100,000
become aphasic/year.
Aphasia Difficulties: - Answers Listening, speaking, reading, writing, language-related functions
(arithmetic, gesturing, telling time)
Aphasia Severity: - Answers Depends on the cause, location/extent/age of brain injury/ general health of
patient
Neural infections, degenerative neural disorders, dementia, and tumors - Answers These will have
"symptoms" of aphasia, but not technically be aphasia
Primary Progressive Aphasia - Answers Degenerative disorder of language, with preservation of other
cognitive functions. Progresses over time to the inability to speak, but comprehension is preserved
(usually starts @ 50)
Ischemic Stroke - Answers Complete or partial blockage of arteries. Best improvement is seen in the first
few weeks and slows down after 3 months
Transient Ischemic Attack - Answers Also known as a mini stroke or TIA. Symptoms mimic a stroke and
can be a warning sign of increased likelihood a stroke in the future.
Hemorrhagic Stroke - Answers Weakened artery walls burst.
Aneurysm - Answers Saclike bulging in weekend artery wall
Arteriovenous Malformation - Answers rare, poorly formed arteries and veins with weak walls
, Hemorrhagic Stroke Improvement - Answers The best at the end of the first month and into the second
month
Aphasia Characteristics (Expressive Language) - Answers Reduced Vocab, omission/addition of words,
stereotypic speech, delayed or reduced output of speech, hyperfluent speech, word substitutions, and
word finding problems
Aphasia Characteristics (Receptive Language) - Answers An impaired interpretation of linguistic
information
Hemiparesis - Answers Left or right side of the body is weak
Hemiplegia - Answers Left or right side of the body is paralyzed
Hemisensory Impairment - Answers Reduced sensory info on left or right side of the body
Hemianopsia - Answers Blindness in the right visual field of each eye
Dysphagia - Answers Swallowing problems
Agnosia - Answers Problems interpreting sensory information (visual, auditory)
Agrammatism - Answers Omission of grammatical elements in speech (articles, prepositions,
morphemes)
Agrpahia - Answers Difficulty writing
Alexia - Answers Difficulty reading
Anomia - Answers Difficulty naming items
Jargon - Answers Meaningless speech that sounds like typical speech (same intonation)
Neologism - Answers Novel words which are made-up by and used by individuals with aphasia
Paraphasia - Answers Word substitutions: Car for Truck (Semantic)/ Tar for Car (Phonological)
Fluent Aphasia - Answers Word substitutions, neologisms, and lots of verbal output (hyper-fluent
speech). Found generally in the parietal left lobe
Wernicke's - Answers Paraphrasias, jargon/neologisms, impaired speech comprehension, reading,
naming, and repetition
Anomic - Answers Impaired word retrieval in speech and writing/impaired speech comprehension, but
other language comprehensions are okays
Conduction - Answers Paraphrasias, impaired naming and repetition, syntax and reading comprehension
is okay, speech comprehension is often okay too
