APHASIA MIDTERM 2026/2027 | COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
A 70-year-old male suffered a stroke in the left cerebral hemisphere in the region of the
posterior temporal lobe. Which of the following speech characteristics would he most likely
exhibit? - ANS ✔✔fluent speech
In aphasia all of the following statements are true EXCEPT - ANS ✔✔Aphasia is synonymous
with apraxia
A patient who suffered a lesion in the posterior aspects of the superior temporal
gyrus/Wernicke's area would most likely display - ANS ✔✔normal prosody
A patient with aphasia was asked about his occupation prior to his stroke. He responded, "I was
adoner the vitemeser wagoner and then it became a flat one, naturally the spizon used to be
docked in the stube but then that's when I started another corser than that one." This patient's
speech can be described as - ANS ✔✔fluent with paraphasia
A patient with a diagnosis of aphasia upon being shown a picture of a "chair" responded
"chasir" for the picture of "banana" the same patient responded "bandana." These speech
errors are - ANS ✔✔phonetic/phonemic
A patient suffered an infarct in the entire "zone of language." You would expect this patient to
exhibit - ANS ✔✔global aphasia
Transcortical motor aphasia and Transcortical sensory aphasia are similar in that - ANS ✔✔both
types have good repetition skills
The non-localizationist would define aphasia as - ANS ✔✔a disorder affecting a single
mechanism that underlies all language modalities
, A patient was asked to perform the following task: "Pick up the candle, the lighter and the bag
of peanuts, then put them in the box." The patient picked up the bag of peanuts and put it in
the box. He appears to have this deficit - ANS ✔✔slow rise time
Which cue tends to work better for auditory comprehension deficits - ANS ✔✔alerting cues
An SLP showed a patient a series of pictures. With each picture the SLP asked the patient,
"What is this?" This type of naming task is called - ANS ✔✔confrontational
A 55 year old patient presented with normal spontaneous speech and normal phrase length as
well as good auditory comprehension, but an inability to repeat statements made by the
examiner. This patient may be exhibiting: - ANS ✔✔conduction aphasia
The following profile represents Patient P's conversational ratings:
Phrase length =3,
Mostly substantives/Functor words = mostly substantives,
Grammatical form = 1,
Paraphasias = rare,
Speech Prosody = severely impaired,
Articulatory Agility = severely impaired.
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
A 70-year-old male suffered a stroke in the left cerebral hemisphere in the region of the
posterior temporal lobe. Which of the following speech characteristics would he most likely
exhibit? - ANS ✔✔fluent speech
In aphasia all of the following statements are true EXCEPT - ANS ✔✔Aphasia is synonymous
with apraxia
A patient who suffered a lesion in the posterior aspects of the superior temporal
gyrus/Wernicke's area would most likely display - ANS ✔✔normal prosody
A patient with aphasia was asked about his occupation prior to his stroke. He responded, "I was
adoner the vitemeser wagoner and then it became a flat one, naturally the spizon used to be
docked in the stube but then that's when I started another corser than that one." This patient's
speech can be described as - ANS ✔✔fluent with paraphasia
A patient with a diagnosis of aphasia upon being shown a picture of a "chair" responded
"chasir" for the picture of "banana" the same patient responded "bandana." These speech
errors are - ANS ✔✔phonetic/phonemic
A patient suffered an infarct in the entire "zone of language." You would expect this patient to
exhibit - ANS ✔✔global aphasia
Transcortical motor aphasia and Transcortical sensory aphasia are similar in that - ANS ✔✔both
types have good repetition skills
The non-localizationist would define aphasia as - ANS ✔✔a disorder affecting a single
mechanism that underlies all language modalities
, A patient was asked to perform the following task: "Pick up the candle, the lighter and the bag
of peanuts, then put them in the box." The patient picked up the bag of peanuts and put it in
the box. He appears to have this deficit - ANS ✔✔slow rise time
Which cue tends to work better for auditory comprehension deficits - ANS ✔✔alerting cues
An SLP showed a patient a series of pictures. With each picture the SLP asked the patient,
"What is this?" This type of naming task is called - ANS ✔✔confrontational
A 55 year old patient presented with normal spontaneous speech and normal phrase length as
well as good auditory comprehension, but an inability to repeat statements made by the
examiner. This patient may be exhibiting: - ANS ✔✔conduction aphasia
The following profile represents Patient P's conversational ratings:
Phrase length =3,
Mostly substantives/Functor words = mostly substantives,
Grammatical form = 1,
Paraphasias = rare,
Speech Prosody = severely impaired,
Articulatory Agility = severely impaired.
