Exam 11: Adult Disorders of Language

There is more agreement among clinicians about the features distinguishing different types of aphasia than about the terminology used to describe the syndromes.

Confabulation is a symptom of:

Symptoms of aphasia include deficits in expressive and receptive language,but not in reading and writing.

While reading aloud,a patient reads "excitement" for "exciting." This type of error is characteristic of:

___ is a symptom of primary progressive aphasia.

Trauma to the brain most often results in:

Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs):

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of right hemisphere damage?

Diffuse deficits in traumatic brain injury can result in:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of logorrhea?

A patient with dementia of the Alzheimer's type is likely to:

A patient who cannot read a message he or she has written likely has:

Which of the following describes the role of the speech-language pathologist in managing traumatic brain injury?

Most strokes (CVAs)are the result of:

___ describes an aphasia characterized by hesitations,revisions,and silences in speech.

The classification system for aphasia has resulted in confusion because:

Which of the aphasias usually results in mutism?

___ is characterized by a difficulty in understanding syntactic relations,and a stronger ability to comprehend language than to produce it.

Symptoms of subcortical aphasias include all of the following EXCEPT:

___ is the inability to comprehend the written word as a result of a cerebral lesion.