CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Antipsychotic, Stimulant, Down Syndrome

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: Ayda Tekok- Kilic

Document Summary

General definition: difficulties in understanding and/or manipulating verbal/non-verbal information in the context of average/above average cognitive capacities, can be modality specific, auditory-verbal (spoken language, visual-verbal (written language, visual-spatial (non-verbal material) Important to know where someone has difficulties to know where their strengths are. Language problems: broca"s aphasia, non-fluent, speech production is very limited, understanding is spared, left hemisphere, understands what is asked but cannot necessarily respond, wernicke"s aphasia, fluent, almost grammatical, prosodic, extreme alcoholism, brain trauma, left hemisphere. Specific language impairment (sli: understanding language, language production, or both, overall deficits in speech perception, absence of hearing impairment, average iq or above average iq, absence of asd. 3 - receptive-expressive language disorder: problems in understanding and expressing language, overuse some words, delay response time, frustration anxiety when trying to communicate, also called mixed language disorder, difficulty understand the language. Posterior left hemisphere (temporal) hypo-activation in phonological problems.