Final - Language disorders

Working memory capacity - complex span tasks

How much can the working memory take, tasks requiring working memory, remembering, many words one after another.

Stroop task

Inhibition of reading response, example, reading the word not the color of the word.

Raven’s Progressive Matrices

Figural reasoning, which figures go together?

Remote Associates Test

Verbal reasoning, word association test, what unrelated words go together?

Rotated Blocks Test

Visual Spatial Reasoning

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a neuro condition, difficulties reading, writing, and spelling (sometimes math skills). The condition is sometimes hard to define because dyslexia can overlap with other learning difficulties that affect spoken language and motor skills.

Dyseidetic

Visual problem, better at reading than spelling, poor sight word recognition, left parietal lobe condition. In the angular gyrus area of the brain.

Dysphonetic

Connecting sounds to symbols, auditory dyslexia, devolpmental dyslexia, Wernicke's Area. Relies on sight recognition to read.

Deep dyslexia

aquried, stroke injury, substitution of semantically but not visually similar words (city, town, large, big)

Anomia

Proper name retrieval. Symptom of left temporal lobe epilepsy. No known treatment.

Aprosodia/ Dysprosody

Trouble comprehending or expressing variations in tone of voice used to express linguistic and emotional information.

Trouble with prosody, often sound monotone.

Semantic Pragmatic Disorder

Related to ASD, diifficulty with how language is used in social situations, use and understanding of language. Saying things that don’t fit the typical context. Semantic = meaning, pragmatic = context.

Eye Behavioral Patterns and Autism

Have trouble making eye contact, eye tracking techniques, Look around the face and not at it .

Mirror Cells and Mimicry

ASD = inability to mimic, ASD = problems with mirror cell processing - different fixation patterns - faces - socail behavoirs

Face processing and Autism

Don’t like to look into people’s eyes, weakens social skills, attention. Get close to babies face, they don’t notice because they have poor face processing because of ASD.

Autism and Multiple Intelligence

Lingustic, social (interpersonal), emotional (inter/intrapersonal), sensory processing (inegration, filtering)

Temple Grandin’s Autistic Brain/assignment 2

DSM hasn’t been accurate in the past, it’s made mistakes and used to be problematic, calling ASD mental retardation. AQ assessment, helps identify autistic traits in adults. Different types of sensory overloads including tactile sensitivity.

Temple Grandin, types of thinkers

Picture, Pattern, World fact, Verbal

Bottom up and top down processing

Relies on info from sensory organs and what they process from the environment around you. Relies on memory and experiences, can shape our processing of new info.

Depression and language

Executive function affects language, prefrontal cortex functioning is disrupted. Working memory has internal distractions, negative retrieval from long term memory resulting in rumination. Domain general deficits. Arousal level is too low. Prosidy is lower.

Anxiety and Language

Arousal level is too high. Prosody speeds up. Retreiving info too fast, stuttering and sluring. Hyperverbal speech, talks more than usual. Fear of public speaking.

Schizophrenia and Language

Loses reality, prefrontal issues

PTSD and Phobia

Glossophobia, strong fear of public speaking. PTSD, flashbacks, anxiety, nightmares. Goal is to change the associative network. Associative network, relaxed nervous system when, talking, exposed to associations in therapy, repeated calm associations. Alexithymia - loosing emotion.

Deaf architecture

wider hallways, ramps, open spaces, green and blue

Deaf Poetry

ASL words that go together like coffee, make, and work.

Weather ASL signs

Time ASL signs

Body ASL signs

Emotional/Mental Health ASL signs