C_S_D 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dysarthria, Agraphia, Deblocking Filter

• School: Mizzou
• Department: Communication Science And Disorders
• Course: C_S_D 4030
• Professor: Slansky

Document Summary

Ciu- content information units: familiarity, length of stimuli (short paragraphs longer stories, redundancy, cohesion, and coherence, salience, directness (not abstract or implied, speech rate- use of pauses to allow processing. Reading comprehension: 3 primary reading processes (aphasia possible at all levels, word recognition. Word recognition by context (top-down processing: syntactic analysis, semantic mapping, dyslexia: Surface dyslexia- impaired whole-word recognition; more emphasis on phonemic analysis i. 1. a. Patients retain ability to sound out words: deep dyslexia- impaired phonemic analysis; semantic errors (confusing words similar in meaning) Survey type and amount of reading prior to injury. generally, treatment most effective for previously good readers. Otherwise, more emphasis on aud comp, speaking skills: survival reading- ranking of pt"s interests current needs, - realistic goals. Assess reading capacity- (vocabulary and complexity level) and reading. Reading grade=6 (adequate for daily reading) also where breakdown occurs (word, sentence, paragraph) Gates macginitie (1965); nelson reading test (1962);