Language Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury

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What are the three areas that communication disorders associated with TBI result from?

  • Damage to specific language processing areas of the brain, cognitive impairments, and damage to sensory pathways
  • Damage to specific language processing areas of the brain, cognitive impairments, and damage to the auditory cortex
  • Damage to specific language processing areas of the brain, cognitive impairments, and damage to motor control networks and pathways (correct)
  • Damage to specific language processing areas of the brain, cognitive impairments, and damage to the visual cortex

What percentage of individuals with TBI exhibited classic symptoms associated with acquired aphasia according to Sarno, Buonaguro, and Levita (1986)?

  • 8%
  • 45%
  • 29% (correct)
  • 10%

What is subclinical aphasia?

  • Aphasia that is caused by damage to the sensory pathways
  • Linguistic processing deficits on testing in the absence of clinical manifestations of linguistic impairment (correct)
  • Aphasia that is present before the injury
  • Aphasia that is not caused by TBI

What is dysarthria?

<p>A motor speech disorder (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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