LDA Final Jeopardy

Digital recordings of patient's meaningful messages using their own voice, inflection and intonation that are stores and then programmed on an AAC device

Message Banking

The primary reason individuals with multiple sclerosis leave the workforce

Cognitive changes

Common symptoms of this disease include tremor, slowed movements, stooped posture, cognitive decline, dysarthria, and dysphagia.

Parkinson's disease

There are two types of ALS, one that presents with muscle weakness in the limbs and one that presents with speech/swallowing changes.

Spinal onset and bulbar onset ALS

Memory changes in this disease are likely to involve working memory, encoding from short-term to long-term storage, prospective memory, and procedural memory

Parkinson's dementia

This deficit involves the inability to recognize faces, including one’s own

Prosopagnosia

This is a difficulty in understanding and expressing the normal range of facial expressions and tone of voice

Flat affect

This measure of spatial neglect asks the client to mark each occurrence of a target item on a piece of paper

Cancellation task

This is an impaired awareness of deficits (motor, sensory, cognitive, emotional) or reduced insight into how those deficits affect daily functioning

Anosognosia

This type of memory is necessary in understanding incoming speech input and planning speech output.

Working memory

Contact-sports players who suffer concussions over the course of their athletic careers are at an increased risk of developing this disorder later in life

Dementia

Individuals with this deficit present with gradual deterioration of conceptual knowledge associated with bilateral temporal atrophy

Semantic dementia

Performance on this type of task can distinguish individuals with AD from individuals with semantic dementia

Confrontation naming or category fluency

This rehabilitation technique uses objects from the past to facilitate a discussion of the past that is meant to stimulate recall

Reminiscence Therapy

This rehabilitation technique asks the client to retrieve newly-learned information repeatedly at equal intervals of time

Spaced Retrieval Training

This type of injury results from the brain rebounding off the skull on the opposite site of the impact

Counter-coup injury

Individuals suffering from this syndrome have had a mild brain injury, but continue to experience problems (headaches, irritability, impaired concentration) longer than expected

Post-concussive syndrome

Post-traumatic amnesia, premorbid intelligence, age at time of injury and duration of coma

Predictors of recovery from TBI

This scale is typically administered in the field, at the scene of the crash, or in the emergency room to obtain a rapid clinical picture of the patient.

Glasgow Coma Scale

Gray and white matter move at different speeds due to their relative weight (the white matter is denser than the gray matter), causing this type of injury as a result of acceleration/deceleration.

Axonal Shearing
Diffuse axonal injury (traumatic shearing forces leading to tearing of nerve fibers in the white matter tracts).

This is a method of communicating using a variety of methods, including verbal language, sign language, and different types of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).

Multi-modal communication

This AAC device is least likely to be available in the ICU

High-tech AAC

This is AAC that uses some type of equipment/external support such as a communication board or a speech generating device

Unaided communication

This intervention is when the communication partner uses AAC in conjunction with spoken input

Modeling

This type of technology used to help individuals with severe deficits navigate and select responses from a screen with their eyes

Eye-tracking or eye gaze

Figuratively, you could say that individuals with this deficit “can’t see the forest because of the trees,” but they would not be able to understand what you mean

Right Hemisphere Disorder