Aphasia Test 1

Disadvantages of beside screening

non-standardised, hard to be consistent, subjective

Advantages of beside screening

flexible, fast, gives direction for further assessment

What does FAST stand for?

Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test

What does BEST stand for?

Bedside Evaluation Screening Test

Examples of standardised bedside screening are…

WAB, BEST, FAST, CDS, Brisbane, IFCI-CFI

What does CDS stand for?

Communication Disability Screener

What does IFCI stand for?

Inpatient Functional Communication Interview

What are the 4 types of fluent aphasia?

Wernicke’s, Transcortical Sensory, Conduction, Anomia

What are the types of non-fluent aphasia?

Broca’s, Global, Transcortical Motor, Mixed Transcortical

What is neuroplasticity?

The brain's ability to repair itself and regenerate connections after TBI or stroke.

Wernicke’s Aphasia characteristics

fluent, poor comprehension, poor repetition

Anomic Aphasia characteristics

fluent, good comprehension, good repetition

Conduction Aphasia characteristics

fluent, good comprehension, poor repetition

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia characteristics

fluent, poor comprehension, good repetition

Transcortical Motor Aphasia characteristics

non-fluent, good comprehension, good repetition

Broca’s Aphasia characteristics

non-fluent, good comprehension, poor repetition

Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

non-fluent, poor comprehension, good repetition

Global Aphasia

non-fluent, poor comprehension, poor repetition

What does WAB stand for?

Western Aphasia Battery

The fibral tract that connects the Broca’s and Wernicke’s area is called the…

Arcuate fasciculus

The first step of the auditory comprehension pathway is…

The ear converts acoustic energy into electrochemical energy into electrochemical energy and transmits it to the brainstem via CN VIII (vestibulocochlear).

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In the auditory comprehension pathway, the electrochemical energy transmits from the brainstem to the….

thalamus

In the auditory comprehension pathway, information is relayed from the thalamus to the ____ __for__ ______.

Primary auditory cortex (A1) for signal processing

In the auditory comprehension pathway, info goes from A1 to the ____ __area where__ ____ is attached.

Wernicke’s area, where meaning is attached

In the auditory comprehension pathway, info goes from the Wernicke’s area to the ___ __area for__ _______

Broca's area, higher-level syntactical processing.

Visual information is projected to the thalamus under BA _/_, *via the* ___ tracts.

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BA 41/42 via the optic tracts.

In the visual pathway, the thalamus projects to the __ lobe’s visual areas (BA *- and -* __)__ for visual processing via the ____ tract.

occipital, BA 17-19, geniculocalcarine tract.

The visual areas project 2 different streams of vision. These are the -- and -- streams.

dorsal, ventral

The dorsal stream of vision is responsible for the “---” of vision.

“where”

The ventral stream of vision is responsible for the “---” of vision.

“what”

When reading, the ----, ---- and ---- temporal reading systems activate.

anterior, paneto and occipito

In the oral production of language pathway, desire and thoughts to communicate originate in the --- cortex and are sent to the ----’s area for --- --- and ---- planning.



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prefrontal cortex, Broca’s area, language encoding and speech planning

In the oral production of language pathway, the Broca’s area projects information to the ---- --- --- at the top of BA 6 which activates --- ---.

supplementary motor area (SMA), speech plans.

In the oral production of language pathway, the SMA then relays now active plans to the ---- ---- cortex

primary motor cortex

In the oral production of language pathway, the primary motor cortex then sends the plans to the --- --- for execution.

speech muscles

In the written expresison of language pathway, language-encoded thoughts are sent to the --- ---- cortex (BA 6) for ------ motor planning.

premotor, handwriting

In the written expression of language pathway, motor plans are sent to the --- --- cortex.

primary motor cotex

In the written expression of language pathway, the primary motor cortex then sends the writing plans to the --- --- for execution.

dominant hand

In the written expression of language pathway, which part of which lobe coordinates the visuospatial aspects of writing?

left superior parietal lobe

Saliency is where…

lexical items should be topical

What are the elements of the ICF framework?

Impairment, Acitivty, Participation, Environment

Paraphasia (basic definition)

when a person with aphasia says a word but it is not the intended word

“chair” instead of “table” is an example of….

semantic paraphasia

“rat” instead of “cat” is an example of…

mixed paraphasia (semantic and phonemic)

“letophone” instead of “telephone” is an example of…

phonemic paraphasia

“aidou” instead of “eyebrow” is an example of…

neologism

“lamp” instead of “dog” is an example of…

random paraphasia

Circumlocution is…

using a description of the word instead of the target word

Agrammatism is…

limitations in sentence structure and functional morphology, missing grammatical elements, syntactic comprehension

Stereotypial utterance/automatism is…

ability to only produce one word, phrase or meaningless sound combination

Perseveration is…

unintentional repetition of a linguistic unit (getting stuck on something)

Non-fluent aphasia is generally associated with lesion in the….

anterior to central sulcus in the dominant language hemisphere

Fluent aphasia is generally associated with lesion in the…

posterior to central sulcus in the dominant language hemisphere

What type of aphasia?

Broca’s

Bedside screening tests…

auditory comprehension, spontaneous speech, word finding, automatic speech, repetition, reading comprehension, writing