AUSP 300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Aphasia, Pragmatics, Phoneme

• School: UTK
• Department: Audiology and Speech Pathology
• Course: AUSP 300
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Confluent-- slow, labored speech, word retrieval and syntactic problems, and good auditory comprehension. What are speech and language characteristics of wernike"s. Both receptive and expressive, pragmatics most impacted--topic maintenance, and use of contextual cases, poor auditory/visual comprehension, limited word recognition and discrimination, fail to suppress irrelevant information, and difficulty comprehending and producing emotional language, lack of normal rhythm/prosody. Which area of language is most affected with tbi patients? pragmatics--may be rambling, incoherent, off-topic, and poor turn taking skills. Treatment regimen for individuals with tbi that is designed to increase functional abilities for everyday life by improving the capacity to process incoming information. What is agrammatism? omission of unstressed words, telegraphic speech. Meaningless or irrelevant speech with typical intonational patterns. A natural recovery process that proceeds without professional intervention. Part-word (syllable repetitions), prolongation, postural fixations (silent blocking), word repetitions, phrase repetitions, interjections, revisions, and incomplete phrases. Fist pounding, nostril flaring, eye-blinking, grimacing, foot stomping.