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The document contains a series of multiple-choice questions related to speech and language disorders, including symptoms of dysarthria, aphasia, and dementia. It discusses the differences between various types of dyslexia, the impact of brain damage on language abilities, and the outcomes of speech therapy for bilingual individuals. Additionally, it addresses the nature of sign languages and their relationship to left hemisphere damage in Deaf signers.

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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.

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