BBSQ5116 Adult Language Disorders

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BBSQ5116 Adult Language Disorders

• Lexture 8 acquired disorders of reading and
  writing additional slides

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Pure Alexia

• Posterior cerebral artery affecting occipital
  cortex and corpus callosum
• When the infarct is on the left, results in
  lesion of left visual cortex and posterior part
  of corpus callosum
• All visual information goes to right hemisphere,
  which is disconnected from language areas on left
  
• Angular gyrus and other language areas on left
  are all intact, so writing is still possible

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• psychment
• departology
• Shakesbeth
• Macpeares
• talder
• powcum

Neglect dyslexia experimental items
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Examples from RCBA-2
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Checking readability levels

• Fry Readability Scale http//www.cdc.gov/od/ads/f
  ry.htm
• In Microsoft Word
• On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click
  the Spelling Grammar tab.
• Select the Check grammar with spelling check box.
  
• Select the Show readability statistics check box,
  and then click OK.
• On the Standard toolbar, click Spelling and
  Grammar.
• When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling
  and grammar, it displays information about the
  reading level of the document.

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Selecting functional material for reading tasks
Brookshire 2003
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Reading workbook for aphasia

• There are various workbooks on the market this
  example is the Reading Workbook for Aphasia by
  Fred Vallier (2002)
• Example exercises (from various sources)
• Complete sentences with missing words For
  breakfast, John likes bacon and ____
• Choose a target word from a list Brush is to
  teeth as comb is to ____
• ear hair brush rooster
• Rearrange scrambled words into sentences school
  is day most the happy last the time for of a
  student