Reading Quiz 4

Screening instruments in aphasia assessment may be useful in all of the following conditions except:

• ~~A clinician needs to establish appropriate recommendations for alternative-augmentative communication methods for hospital staff.~~
• A clinician needs to identify the aphasia-sub-type

Assessments that fall within the Participation level of the ICF for persons with aphasia includes:

Unlike acute aphasia onset, Primary Progressive Aphasia…

• ~~is isolated to deficits in verbal expression~~
• gets worse across time.

"The cat was carried to the bed by the boy."

• Non-canonical

Strategies that clinicians might employ when assessing an individual's lexical retrieval system include the following:

• all of these

Bilingualism can be conceptualized as existing on a continuum with variations in a person's ability to use either language depending on task, modality, and amount of exposure to that language.

• TRUE

Confrontation naming describes the ability to verbalize (or write) the name for visually presented stimuli (e.g., objects, pictures).

• TRUE

Confrontation naming is a good predictor of communication in functional daily activities.

• ~~True~~
• FALSE

After an asessment, clinicians should be able to summarize the nature and severity of a person's language impairment, activity limitations, and societal participation.

• true

Please describe: 1. a task for assessing verbal expression that is unstructured, 2. a task for assessing verbal expression that is highly structured.

An unstructured conversation can be used to assess verbal expression. This way, the clinician and the client can use any modes of modality that would be best for them to continue the conversation.

A structured way of asses verbal expression could be the WAB. The WAB tests a person's spontaneous speech, repetition, and word-finding skills.

As part of the process approach, a clinician may administer standardized testing.

• True

A drawback of standardized testing is that individuals with different language profiles and abilities may score the same on subtests.

• True

Why does clinician write ALL behaviors and responses as part of the process approach?  (Select multiple responses.)

• To guide the rehabilitation plan.

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