CS&D 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Traumatic Brain Injury, Transient Ischemic Attack, Arteriovenous Malformation
1 Apr 2017
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Form: morphology: continue to acquire prefixes and morphophonemic contrasts, and irregular forms of words, effective use of pronouns, articles, tenses, written language form tends to be more complex, length and syntactic complexity of sentences increase and stabilize. Content: vocabulary size about 30,000 - 60,000 words, receptive > expressive vocabulary, specialized vocabulary develops based on work, religion, hobbies, interests, and social groups, knowledge of multiple meanings and figurative language. Flexibility and ease of word retrieval may decrease after age 75. Older adults show some increasing deficits with working memory and therefore, deficits with use of words or use of grammatically complex sentences. May exhibit a decline in oral and written language comprehension, understanding complex sentences, and inferencing. Definition: aphasia is an acquired language disorder that is caused due to a neurological incident of the dominant language hemisphere. It affects the components of language and excludes sensory, motor, or intellect as contributing factors.
