SLHS 11500 Chapter Notes - Chapter Unit 4: Transcortical Sensory Aphasia, Anomic Aphasia, Transient Ischemic Attack

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Speech, Lang & Hear Science
• Course: SLHS 11500
• Professor: David Ertmer

Document Summary

Form: adults continue to acquire pre xes, morphophonemic contrasts, and infrequently used irregular verbs -> more cohesive language seniors have a decline in oral and written language comprehension, understanding of syntactically complex sentences, and inferencing. The brain: cerebrum (right and left hemisphere), cerebellum, and brainstem: gyri: hills, cerebellum: little brain , coordinates the control of ne, complex. Thrombosis: blocks blood ow, caused by clot, does not move. Intervention: begins with visual and auditory recognition self-monitoring and paralinguistic are introduced and complexity of the context is gradually increased: aprosodia: Imitative treatment: client repeats a sentence in unison with slp: cognitive-linguistic treatment: uses various cues to modify the client"s prosody, includes use of an emotion label such as happy or angry, facial picture depicting the emotion. Irreversible dementia is most commonly due to alzheimer"s or vascular dementia, or a combination of both.