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| basic definition of aphasia |
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| An impairment of comprehension or production of communication secondary to cognitive, linguistic, and/or pragmatic impairment |
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| Processes by which sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used |
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| Processes of language content, form, & use |
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| Rule-based processes for conversing with different partners & contexts & initiating, maintaining, & terminating discourse & conversation |
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| Goodglass' Definition of Aphasia |
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A family of clinically-diverse disorders that affect the ability to communicate by oral or written language, or both, following brain damage.
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| Chapey, Brookshire and Goodglass' definition of aphasia |
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| an acquired communication disorder caused by brain damage, characterized by an impairment of language modalities; speaking, listening, reading and writing. |
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| Halpem's definition of aphasia |
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A multi-modality language disturbance due to brain damage. A linguistic deficit causing difficulty in the comprehension and/or formulation of language symbols
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| The four primary factors of aphasia |
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- Neurogenic
- Acquired
- Language problem only
- not sensory or intellectual problem
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| Always caused by neurological damage |
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Not developmental; partial or complete loss of language function in persons who had previously developed normal language ability. |
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All modalities (speech, comprehension, writing, reading) are affected. |
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- Propositional
- Unidimensional
- Multidimensional
- Microgenetic
- Concrete-Abstract
- Thought Process
- Psycholinguistic/Problem Solving/Information Processing
- Body Structure & Functions, Activity, & Participation
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Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911)
Inability to make propositions: to convey intent of an utterance; to use spontaneous language to communicate specific meaning.
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Hildred Schuell (1950’s)
Language is a single entity; aphasia is not modality specific, but affects the ability to access & retrieve words & rules of language.
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Harold Goodglass, Edith Kaplan, Andrew Kertesz (1960’s-present) Site of lesion corresponds to specific language impairment; use language symptoms to classify aphasia type-fluent vs nonfluent, semantic vs syntactic, Broca’s vs Wernicke’s
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Joseph Brown (present) Language processing is an event that emerges over different levels of the brain corresponding to different levels of evolutionary development; simultaneous processing event
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Goldstein & Scheerer --“Abstract attitude” allows person the ability to react to what is heard or seen in a “conceptual” manner; propositional language is abstract, whereas automatic & emotional utterances, sounds, single words, & automated word series are concrete
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Joseph Wepman
A disordered thought process; word substitution
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| Psycholinguistic/problem solving/information processesing |
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Muma, Bloom & Lahey, Chapey
Couched in Cognitive Theory; Impairment of language content, form, & use & the cognitive processes underlying language-memory & thinking; cognitive problems with problem-solving & information processing
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| Body Structure & function, Activity & Participation |
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Fougeyrollas
De-medicalizes language disorder, focuses on health & well-being as related to life's purposes & qualities; participation in live activites & realizing long-term life goals; life functions |
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- Brain damage
- Primarily cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
- Stroke or "brain attack"
- Blood flow interrupted by blockage of a blood vessel to an area of the brain or by rupturing an artery.
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What are the positive risk-factors for stroke and aphasia? |
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- Positive factors
- Hypertension
- diabetes
- high cholesterol
- smoking
- stress
- inactivity
- alcohol excess
- Poor diet (fats, sodium, cholesterol)
- Access to health care
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| What are the negative factors for stroke and aphasia? |
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| What is the purpose for treating aphasia? |
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Intervention enables an affected person to be able to comprehend & express language more effectively.
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| What are possible outcomes from aphasia intervention? |
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- Heightens potential for maximum functioning with his or her environment
- Helps facilitate meaningful relationships
- Helps restore self-esteem, dignity, & independence
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| What is the objective of this course? |
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To study the characteristic nature (etiology and symptomatology) of aphasic disturbances, including principles of evaluation, treatment, and management |
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