CMD 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Functional Programming, Hypercholesterolemia

• School: URI
• Department: Communicative Disorders
• Course: CMD 460
• Professor: Kim Mikyong

Document Summary

Aphasia case study: the cause of her language problem was multiple recurrent strokes over several months. She developed tumors in various regions of her brain, which were malignant. These also affected her speech, as the malignancies did not appear until it caused the strokes: wernicke"s aphasia and conduction aphasia, some risk factors that patricia had included a history of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. She was also a smoker: some of the language symptoms that confirm wernicke"s aphasia include marked deficits in comprehension but fluent oral expression. She would sometimes use word substitutions, which could either resemble intended word or could be random. She was unable to comprehend any verbal content, so her most compromised modality was auditory comprehension. She only had partial awareness of her lack of communication. She used gestures more so than oral communication to express herself: the author can conclude patricia has conduction aphasia due to her inability to repeat words.