SLP Comprehensive Exam questions
well answered to pass
definition: talking around the specific word, using gestures or phrases
- round about/indirect way of speaking
E.g. "I wear it right here- point to wrist" (watch) - correct answer ✔✔circumlocution
1. Literal (phonemic) paraphasia
2. Semantic (lexical) paraphasia
3. Mixed paraphasia
4. Unrelated (random) paraphasia
5. Neologism - correct answer ✔✔Different types of paraphasias
substituting 1 letter/sound or an addition of a sound
-primarily occurs in content words
-errors in maintaining their structural position in words
E.g. 'bizza' for 'pizza' or 'pag' for 'bag' - correct answer ✔✔literal/phonemic paraphasia
substitution of whole word that is semantically related
E.g. 'hammer' for 'nail' or 'door' for 'knob' - correct answer ✔✔Semantic/lexical paraphasia
words are both semantically AND phonetically related
"rat" for "cat"
,"cow" for "cat" - correct answer ✔✔mixed paraphasia
words are not semantically related
E.g. 'car' for 'hamburger' - correct answer ✔✔Unrelated/random paraphasia
invented, non-word, non-sensical
occur more frequently with low freq words
E.g. "schnoogie" - correct answer ✔✔neolgism
FLUENT aphasia - correct answer ✔✔This type of aphasia typically contains more paraphasias
STEPS= semantic
TOWN= literal
CUPCAKE= unrelated
ROUND= literal - correct answer ✔✔1. The following are lyrics from Beyonce's song, "Halo."
"Remember those WALLS I built,
Well, baby, they're tumbling DOWN.
And they didn't even put up a FIGHT,
They didn't even make a SOUND."
Please identify the type of paraphasic errors in this altered version of the lyrics:
"Remember those STEPS I built,
Well, baby, they're tumbling TOWN
And they didn't even put up a CUPCAKE,
They didn't even make a ROUND."
,production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic, or
neologistic errors in speech
-appears to make sense to the individual - correct answer ✔✔Jargon
excessive verbal production/does not appear to make sense - correct answer
✔✔Logorrhea/press of speech
anterior lesions, speech is halting, effortful, contains pauses, agrammatism - correct answer
✔✔Non-fluent aphasia
slow rate of speech (<50 WPM)
generate few words
struggling, halting, effortful
agrammatism
abnormal prosody
content words/nouns
omission of function/functor words (e.g. articles/prep)
limited phrase length, single word
-"Expressive" aphasia- understand language better than can produce - correct answer
✔✔Hallmarks of non-fluent aphasia
Texting Grossly Mimics Brocas
1. Transcortical motor
2. Global
3. Mixed transcortical motor
4. Broca's - correct answer ✔✔4 types of non-fluent aphasia
, non-fluent aphasia - correct answer ✔✔BROCAS aphasia
Fluent aphasia - correct answer ✔✔WERNICKES aphasia
posterior lesions, speech is produced with less effort/smooth, typically more paraphasias,
paragrammatism - correct answer ✔✔Fluent aphasia
speak readily, few hesitations or struggles
words may be neologisms, paraphasias, jargon
'receptive aphasia'= poor comprehension
temporal lobe/posterior lesions
increased WPM
+ prosody, intonation - correct answer ✔✔Hallmarks of fluent aphasia
We Talk Almost Constantly
1. Wernickes
2. Transcortical sensory
3. Anomic
4. Conduction - correct answer ✔✔4 types of fluent aphasia
NON-FLUENT - correct answer ✔✔Which type of aphasia:
slow rate of speech (<50 WMP)
NON-FLUENT
understand language better than can produce - correct answer ✔✔Which type of aphasia:
Expressive aphasia
well answered to pass
definition: talking around the specific word, using gestures or phrases
- round about/indirect way of speaking
E.g. "I wear it right here- point to wrist" (watch) - correct answer ✔✔circumlocution
1. Literal (phonemic) paraphasia
2. Semantic (lexical) paraphasia
3. Mixed paraphasia
4. Unrelated (random) paraphasia
5. Neologism - correct answer ✔✔Different types of paraphasias
substituting 1 letter/sound or an addition of a sound
-primarily occurs in content words
-errors in maintaining their structural position in words
E.g. 'bizza' for 'pizza' or 'pag' for 'bag' - correct answer ✔✔literal/phonemic paraphasia
substitution of whole word that is semantically related
E.g. 'hammer' for 'nail' or 'door' for 'knob' - correct answer ✔✔Semantic/lexical paraphasia
words are both semantically AND phonetically related
"rat" for "cat"
,"cow" for "cat" - correct answer ✔✔mixed paraphasia
words are not semantically related
E.g. 'car' for 'hamburger' - correct answer ✔✔Unrelated/random paraphasia
invented, non-word, non-sensical
occur more frequently with low freq words
E.g. "schnoogie" - correct answer ✔✔neolgism
FLUENT aphasia - correct answer ✔✔This type of aphasia typically contains more paraphasias
STEPS= semantic
TOWN= literal
CUPCAKE= unrelated
ROUND= literal - correct answer ✔✔1. The following are lyrics from Beyonce's song, "Halo."
"Remember those WALLS I built,
Well, baby, they're tumbling DOWN.
And they didn't even put up a FIGHT,
They didn't even make a SOUND."
Please identify the type of paraphasic errors in this altered version of the lyrics:
"Remember those STEPS I built,
Well, baby, they're tumbling TOWN
And they didn't even put up a CUPCAKE,
They didn't even make a ROUND."
,production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonological, semantic, or
neologistic errors in speech
-appears to make sense to the individual - correct answer ✔✔Jargon
excessive verbal production/does not appear to make sense - correct answer
✔✔Logorrhea/press of speech
anterior lesions, speech is halting, effortful, contains pauses, agrammatism - correct answer
✔✔Non-fluent aphasia
slow rate of speech (<50 WPM)
generate few words
struggling, halting, effortful
agrammatism
abnormal prosody
content words/nouns
omission of function/functor words (e.g. articles/prep)
limited phrase length, single word
-"Expressive" aphasia- understand language better than can produce - correct answer
✔✔Hallmarks of non-fluent aphasia
Texting Grossly Mimics Brocas
1. Transcortical motor
2. Global
3. Mixed transcortical motor
4. Broca's - correct answer ✔✔4 types of non-fluent aphasia
, non-fluent aphasia - correct answer ✔✔BROCAS aphasia
Fluent aphasia - correct answer ✔✔WERNICKES aphasia
posterior lesions, speech is produced with less effort/smooth, typically more paraphasias,
paragrammatism - correct answer ✔✔Fluent aphasia
speak readily, few hesitations or struggles
words may be neologisms, paraphasias, jargon
'receptive aphasia'= poor comprehension
temporal lobe/posterior lesions
increased WPM
+ prosody, intonation - correct answer ✔✔Hallmarks of fluent aphasia
We Talk Almost Constantly
1. Wernickes
2. Transcortical sensory
3. Anomic
4. Conduction - correct answer ✔✔4 types of fluent aphasia
NON-FLUENT - correct answer ✔✔Which type of aphasia:
slow rate of speech (<50 WMP)
NON-FLUENT
understand language better than can produce - correct answer ✔✔Which type of aphasia:
Expressive aphasia
