CDIS 402: Disability Portfolio

Cognitive
Disability
profile:

Blow to head
can affect
certain
language area
of brain

Impact
on oral
and
written
language
develop
ment:

Hard time
with
reasoning,
problem
solving,
evaluating,
long term
memory is not
affected

Successes and Challenges to Language DevelopmentFall 2015

Communicatio
Social/
n
Emotional
Linguistic
Aphasia,
Blow to the
Dysarthria,
head can
Apraxia
affect the
Brocas and
frontal lobe
regions
Hard time
Difficult time
producing
communicatin
speech sounds, g with other
people and
dont know
when to start
or stop
speaking

Physical
Strokes

Seizures,
headaches,
impairments in
movement
(balance),
apraxia of
speech

Sensory
A blow to the occipital
and other regions can
cause damage to the
sensory receptors such
as smell, sight, and
hearing
Blurred vision, changes
in ability to smell,
ringing in ears

Factors within the student related to functioning

My big ideas from the readings: Much of the presentation was an elongated version of the article. I
learned a lot of the same ideas that I wrote above. Basically, I learned different symptoms and origins of
the disorder. I also learned that depending on where the injury occurs, the outcome will be different. For
example, a frontal lobe injury versus an occipital lobe injury. One has to do with vision, the other has to do
with language.
My big ideas from the group presentation: A blow to the head can cause difficulties in many parts of
language and sensory receptors. This happens because the brain has so many connections that lead to
other parts. So, when one part is damaged, other parts of the brain dont receive the information they are
supposed to.

CDIS 402: Disability Portfolio

Successes and Challenges to Language DevelopmentFall 2015

Reflection (What does this mean for my practice?): I must be patient with these clients. Everything is
backwards for them and their motor planning system does not work like mine would. I will have to find
different ways to communicate with them and realize that the way I learn something or do something will
not be easy or the same for them.