This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
apraxias
type |
deficit |
motor act |
ideomotor apraxia |
cannot gesture and pantomime on verbal command |
Can conceptualize but not execute the action upon request. Can execute spontaneous gestures and a one step motor task when the environmental context induces automatic response. |
ideatonal apraxia |
cannot sequence multi step tasks |
Problem planning and carrying out the steps of a task in the proper order/sequence. |
conceptual disorder |
doesnt know what the tool does and the function of the tool |
Difficulty selecting adequate tool for specific action |
constructional disorder |
Copying 2D drawings and 3D constructions. |
Struggles with activities that require arranging, building, drawing. Difficulty with the manipulation of objects in space. |
dressing apraxia |
Visuospatial coordination plus hemineglect. |
Visuospatial difficulties result in an inability to orient garments correctly, to align them correctly to the body. |
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aphasia
brocas - expressive *broken speech (short utterances) |
able to understand speech but has difficulty producing speech to communicate |
wernickies - receptive - speech is effortless but meaning is impaired |
able to produce speech but displays difficulty understanding both spoken and written speech |
anomic aphasia |
characterized by difficulty with word retrieval resulting in hesitant or slowed speech |
dysarthria |
suffer from paralysis and incoordination of the structures involved in speech which cause slurred and sluggish speech |
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