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SLP Test (Aphasia)

Choose the most appropriate options:

1. Aphasia is

a) the same as dysphasia; b) total lack of language;

c) damage of the brain area responsible for d) disorder of language comprehension and/ or
language processing; production caused by specific brain damage.

2. Are these examples of aphasia?

a) senile dementia; b) perceptual difficulties;

c) peripheral deafness; d) deterioration of mental faculties.

3. What is/are the most common cause/s of aphasia?

a) strokes; b) smoking;
c) arteries being blocked by foreign matter d) cerebrovascular accidents.
that has entered the blood stream;

4. Are males or females more at risk of having aphasia?

a) women; b) men.

5. Which of the communication modalities usually improves more rapidly?

a) language production; b) language comprehension.

6. There are the following types of aphasia:

a) global, unilateral, apraxia; b)agnosia, apraxia, anarthria;

c)Broca’s aphasia, Wernicke’s aphasia, global aphasia; d)Broka’s aphasia, Global aphasia, Apraxia.

7. Broca’s aphasia is

a) receptive aphasia; b) sensory aphasia;

c) motor aphasia; d) when people often repeat individual words.

8. Match the symptoms of aphasia with their definitions:

a) agnosia 2 *accompanying weakness or paralysis in the

side of the body opposite the hemisphere that
has been damaged;

c) apraxia 3 *a difficulty in recognizing familiar sensory

stimuli;
d)anarthria 1 *an often severe difficulty in controlling
voluntary movements of limbs and vocal
organs.

Thank you!