STROKE REHABILITATION questions
with correct answers
What should All suspected stroke patients be admitted directly and what does
this allow? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o Specialist acute stroke unit:
o Early recognition and treatment of complications
o MDT working
o Co-ordinated and organised in-patient care with weekly MDT meetings
o Programmes of education and training for staff, patients, carers
o Involvement of carers in rehabilitation
o Staff interest and expertise
Define aphasia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔loss of ability to understand or
express speech due to brain dysfunction
What is expressive dysphasia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o understands
language, but cannot find the right words
o recognises incorrect language
o reading and writing may be affected
What is receptive dysphasia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o inability to
understand language
o does not recognise error in speech
,o reading & writing affected
What is dysarthria? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· know what they want to say,
but cannot get the words out correctly · understanding, ready & writing
notaffected
What is hemianopia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Loss of one half of the visual
fields
Define apraxia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Difficulty in performing tasks
despite intact motor function
Define asterognosis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to identify objects in
both hands by touch alone despite intact sensation
Define agnosia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o Inability to recognise objects.
o Persons, sounds, shapes or smells when the specific sense is intact or these is
no memory loss
Define inattention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to attend to stimuli
bilaterally despite intact sensation
When does aphasia usually occur? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔occurs when
someone has a left hemisphere stroke - usually when Broca's or Wernicke's are
the site of the location
, What is Receptive dysphasia due to? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a lesion in
Wernicke's area and results in the inability to understand language correctly
What is receptive dysphagia usually associated with? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔· there is often a combination of expressive and receptive dysphasia, as the
two areas are closely related anatomically
What is the difference between dysarthria and aphasia? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔· in dysarthria, comprehension, reading and writing should not
be affected
Define dysarthria - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o motor disturbance of speech
o a problem of weak muscles and reduced control affecting the ability to
speakclearly
How may a person with dysarthria appear? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· The
person may sound slurred, get easily out of breath and have a flat-sounding
voice
Define dyspraxia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· Dyspraxia affects the person's
ability to respond voluntarily in conversation, but they may be able to do things
automatically e.g. greet a person
How does a person with dyspraxia appear? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔·
Typically, the person is unable to repeat things and seems to grope for words
and sounds
with correct answers
What should All suspected stroke patients be admitted directly and what does
this allow? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o Specialist acute stroke unit:
o Early recognition and treatment of complications
o MDT working
o Co-ordinated and organised in-patient care with weekly MDT meetings
o Programmes of education and training for staff, patients, carers
o Involvement of carers in rehabilitation
o Staff interest and expertise
Define aphasia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔loss of ability to understand or
express speech due to brain dysfunction
What is expressive dysphasia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o understands
language, but cannot find the right words
o recognises incorrect language
o reading and writing may be affected
What is receptive dysphasia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o inability to
understand language
o does not recognise error in speech
,o reading & writing affected
What is dysarthria? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· know what they want to say,
but cannot get the words out correctly · understanding, ready & writing
notaffected
What is hemianopia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Loss of one half of the visual
fields
Define apraxia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Difficulty in performing tasks
despite intact motor function
Define asterognosis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to identify objects in
both hands by touch alone despite intact sensation
Define agnosia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o Inability to recognise objects.
o Persons, sounds, shapes or smells when the specific sense is intact or these is
no memory loss
Define inattention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Inability to attend to stimuli
bilaterally despite intact sensation
When does aphasia usually occur? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔occurs when
someone has a left hemisphere stroke - usually when Broca's or Wernicke's are
the site of the location
, What is Receptive dysphasia due to? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a lesion in
Wernicke's area and results in the inability to understand language correctly
What is receptive dysphagia usually associated with? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔· there is often a combination of expressive and receptive dysphasia, as the
two areas are closely related anatomically
What is the difference between dysarthria and aphasia? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔· in dysarthria, comprehension, reading and writing should not
be affected
Define dysarthria - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o motor disturbance of speech
o a problem of weak muscles and reduced control affecting the ability to
speakclearly
How may a person with dysarthria appear? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· The
person may sound slurred, get easily out of breath and have a flat-sounding
voice
Define dyspraxia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔· Dyspraxia affects the person's
ability to respond voluntarily in conversation, but they may be able to do things
automatically e.g. greet a person
How does a person with dyspraxia appear? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔·
Typically, the person is unable to repeat things and seems to grope for words
and sounds
