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How many adults identified with a language disorder at age 5 still have

difficulty? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔70%


What do adults continuously refine? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Use, Content, Form


Use - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Code-switching! Narratives will continue to improve


Content - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Some words will fade while others are added.

Deficits in accuracy and speed of word retrieval/naming


Form - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Your brain and spinal cord

communicate with the rest of the body through nerves. (Most affected with

FAS)



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,Four lobes of the brain: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔frontal, parietal, occipital,

temporal


Aphasia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔language impairment which occurs as a result of

an accident or stroke


Aphasia Affects: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Over 1 million Americans. Half a million

Americans annually. About 100,000 become aphasic/year.


Aphasia Difficulties: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Listening, speaking, reading, writing,

language-related functions (arithmetic, gesturing, telling time)


Aphasia Severity: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depends on the cause,

location/extent/age of brain injury/ general health of patient

Neural infections, degenerative neural disorders, dementia, and tumors - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔These will have "symptoms" of aphasia, but not technically

be aphasia


Primary Progressive Aphasia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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)



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, Ischemic Stroke - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Complete or partial blockage of arteries.

Best improvement is seen in the first few weeks and slows down after 3

months


Transient Ischemic Attack - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Weakened artery walls burst.


Aneurysm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Saclike bulging in weekend artery wall


Arteriovenous Malformation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔rare, poorly formed arteries

and veins with weak walls


Hemorrhagic Stroke Improvement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The best at the end of

the first month and into the second month


Aphasia Characteristics (Expressive Language) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Reduced

Vocab, omission/addition of words, stereotypic speech, delayed or reduced

output of speech, hyperfluent speech, word substitutions, and word finding

problems




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