AUSP 300 Final: COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL!

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

Document Summary

Broca"s aphasia is associated with the damage to the anterior or forward parts of the frontal lobe of the cerebral hemisphere, centered in broca"s area. Slow, labored speech, word retrieval and syntactic problems, good auditory comprehension. Word substitutions, neologisms, and often verbose verbal output. Wernicke"s : rapid speech, jumbled content, verbal paraphasia, jargon. Pragmatics most impacted topic maintenance, use of contextual cues. Fail to suppress irrelevant or inappropriate information. Pragmatics; pragmatic impairments results from the inability to inhabit behavior and from errors of judgments. Agnosia: a sensory deficit accompanying some aphasias that make it difficult for the client to understand incoming sensory info. This disorder may be specific to auditory or visual info. Writing may be full of mistakes or poorly formed. Clients may be unable to write what they are able to say. Individuals with aphasia may omit short, unstressed words, such as articles or prepositions.