CS&D 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Attention, Penetrating Head Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury
28 Mar 2017
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Use: competent adults can influence others, impart information, and make needs known, very effective communicators and skilled conversationalists. Content: adults continue to add to personal vocabularies. Form: adults continue to acquire prefixes, morphophonemic contrasts, and infrequently used irregular verbs. Central nervous system (cns): brain and spinal cord: communicates with rest of body through the nerves, the brain. In 98% of people, the left hemisphere is dominant for most aspects of receptive and expressive language and motor speech production. Cerebellum: coordinates the control of fine, complex motor activities, maintains muscle tone, and participates in motor learning. Usually exhibit greater deficits in expressive language and overall efficiency of communication. More than 1 million americans have aphasia. Problems in auditory comprehension and word retrieval are common. May affect listening, speaking, reading, and/or writing. Expressive deficits -> reduced vocabulary, omission or addition of words, stereotypic utterances, delayed and reduced output of speech or hyperfluent speech, word substitutions.
