26. Which is the main symptom of unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria?
Group of answer choices
involuntary movements
rigidity, stiffness & tightness
increased muscle tone, lack of inhibition
weakness
uncoordinated speech
weakness, incoordination & spasticity
islands of fluency
27. Broca's aphasia and acquired apraxia of speech are common following left
frontal lobe brain damage due to a stroke. Which of the following is true about
these two disorders?
Group of answer choices
Individuals with apraxia of speech have writing difficulties; individuals with Broca's
aphasia do not have writing difficulties.
Individuals with Broca's aphasia have writing difficulties, individuals with apraxia of
speech do not have writing difficulties.
Individuals with apraxia and individuals with Broca's aphasia have impaired speech
production.
b&c
a&c
28. Which is the main symptom of ataxic dysarthria?
Group of answer choices
involuntary movements
rigidity, stiffness & tightness
increased muscle tone, lack of inhibition
weakness
uncoordinated speech
weakness, incoordination & spasticity
islands of fluency
29. Gracie has moderate semantic dementia. She is asked to name the object that
he/she sees. She is shown a picture of an owl. What is likely to his/her response?
Group of answer choices
Owl. Naming is not impaired in semantic dementia.
Bird, or Animal. There are deficits in the person’s conceptual knowledge so they
are able to only give a vague/general category for the object.
Nothing. Most semantic dementia patients have a difficult time speaking at all.
Nothing if the owl is displayed in the patient’s left visual field.
more than one of the above
30. In the early stage of dementia, what is the most common language
impairment?
Group of answer choices
word finding difficulties
syntactic deficits
phonological deficits
all of the above
none of the above
31. Which of the following statements is true regarding how dementia and normal
aging are different?
Group of answer choices
Individuals with dementia have frequent word finding difficulties while occasional
word findings difficulties are expected in normal aging.
Individuals with dementia are less concerned about their memory loss than their
family members.
As part of the normal aging process, older adults get lost in familiar settings. This
does not happen in dementia.
a&b
none of the above
32. Regina is in the late stage of dementia. Regina is likely to...
Group of answer choices
Have syntactic impairments
Have phonological impairments
Have reading and writing impairments
all of the above
none of the above
33. Which of the following is true of deep dyslexia?
Group of answer choices
it is associated with large left hemisphere lesions
reading errors are phonological in nature, i.e. mistaking “glue” for “blue”
aphasia is never present in patients with deep dyslexia
all of the above
b & c only
34. We have discussed in this course how the grapheme-to-phoneme route is not
the only route to reading. Which of the following statements supports this idea?
Group of answer choices
There is no evidence. All reading involves the grapheme-to-phoneme route.
Patients with pure alexia cannot read.
Adults can read real words such as “bat” and “top.”
Adults can read things such as “cough,” “pseudonym” and “debt”
none of the above
35. Which of the following is true of surface dyslexia?
Group of answer choices
reading errors are typically semantically based
reading of non-words is intact
reading of irregularly spelled words is impaired
all of the above
b & c only
36. Indicate if the following is typically produced due to left hemisphere or right
hemisphere damage.
When asked to draw a clock, it looks like this:
Group of answer choices
left hemisphere damage
right hemisphere damage
37. Indicate if the following is typically produced due to left hemisphere or right
hemisphere damage.
Often gets lost, particularly in relatively unfamiliar surroundings.
Group of answer choices
left hemisphere damage
right hemisphere damage
38. Bonnie is fluent in both English and Portugese. She had a stroke several
months ago. Which of the following are possible outcomes of her speech therapy?
Group of answer choices
her improvements in phonological processing in English may generalize to
Portugese.
her improvements in word finding in Portugese may interfere with improvements in
word finding in English.
therapy targeting one language will always benefit the second language.
a & b are both possible
none of the above
39. Sign languages are...
Group of answer choices
natural human languages
not manual translations of spoken languages
languages that have complex grammatical structure
all of the above
a & b only
40. Left hemisphere damage in a Deaf signer can cause [blank1], while sparing
[blank2].
Group of answer choices
aphasia; visuospatial navigation abilities
local processing deficits; sign language production and comprehension
visuospatial deficits; aphasia
none of the above; left hemisphere damage doesn’t cause any deficits in Deaf
signers.
