Exam 10: Children With Acquired Language Disorders

Semantic skills are often impaired in children with acquired aphasia; particularly trouble retrieving specific words on cue.

Writing skills are generally unaffected by cognitive impairments arising from traumatic head injury.

Poor insight, failure to self-monitor, and impairment of higher level discourse skills are indicative of a disorder of which domain?

Head injury, vascular lesion, and Landau-Kleffner syndrome are the main causes of childhood aphasia.

What are the challenges faced by public school systems in providing services to a child recovering from a head injury?

In what areas of language development are adolescents with TBI most likely to be impaired?

What is meant by compensatory intervention? Give an example.

Girls and boys have approximately equal incidence of head trauma.

Comprehension impairments in children with TBI relate directly to the severity of the injury.

Share with the class various educational programs such as "Heads Up" aimed at prevention of head injury in youth.

Describe academic difficulties in children with TBI.

The GCS is predictive of both which children will die from head injury and the level of difficulty experienced by surviving children in academic settings.

Share innovative programs that address the needs of youth with head injuries and their families within the local community.

Describe comprehension skills in children with acquired brain injury.

What is the most likely cause of a focal brain injury?

At what stage of recovery is the use of a schedule and/or log book, scheduled intervention sessions, and focus on memory skills most appropriate?

Which factor most likely accounts for the recovery seen in brain injured children?

How is word retrieval changed in children with acquired aphasia?

A brain injury sustained in a motor vehicle accident is most likely to cause what type of lesion?

What are the major differences between children and adults in recovery from TBI?