Receptive and expressive language disorder types across the lifespan tested on the Praxis Speech-Language Pathology exam.
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- What is receptive language disorder?
- Difficulty understanding spoken or written language.
- What is expressive language disorder?
- Difficulty producing spoken or written language to convey meaning.
- What is mixed receptive-expressive language disorder?
- Significant difficulty in both understanding and producing language.
- What term is now used instead of "Specific Language Impairment"?
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
- What is a "late talker"?
- A toddler with a significantly limited vocabulary for age despite otherwise typical development.
- Which aphasia type is nonfluent with relatively preserved comprehension?
- Broca's aphasia
- Which aphasia type is fluent but with poor comprehension?
- Wernicke's aphasia
- Where is Broca's area located?
- Posterior inferior frontal gyrus, usually in the left hemisphere.
- Where is Wernicke's area located?
- Posterior superior temporal gyrus, usually in the left hemisphere.
- What white matter tract connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas?
- The arcuate fasciculus
- Damage to the arcuate fasciculus, with fluent speech and good comprehension but poor repetition, causes which aphasia?
- Conduction aphasia
- Which aphasia type involves severe impairment across all language modalities?
- Global aphasia
- Which aphasia type shows fluent, grammatical speech but marked word-finding difficulty?
- Anomic aphasia
- What is transcortical motor aphasia?
- Nonfluent aphasia with intact repetition.
- What is transcortical sensory aphasia?
- Fluent aphasia with poor comprehension but intact repetition.