COMD 500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trachea, Middle Ear, Expressive Aphasia

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Communication Disorders
• Course: COMD 500
• Professor: Lorelei Phillip

Document Summary

Speech requires effort, can only say one of=r two words at a time. Speaks content words: receptive aphasia occurs because of language comprehension, poster lesions. Lesions are not close to motor or pre-motor areas. Speech is fluent, but he has trouble understanding and cannot produce an answer relative to what the questionnaire is asking: broca"s aphasia: able to find words but has trouble describing, not many function words. Cookie theft picture is ofte(cid:374) used to test bro(cid:272)a"s aphasia: wernicke"s aphasia: posterior and superior regions of temporal and occasional parietal.