Study guide Exam3 Pt.3

Question 1

Causes of TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

Answer 1

-Falls
-Blunt trauma (including sport accidents)
-MVA (motor vehicle accident)
-Violent crimes
-Abuse(shaken baby, domestic violence)
-Suicide attempts
-Occupational injuries (nursing,
-Military actions

Question 2

Most at risk for sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Answer 2

Males 2 to 3 times more likely (boys think differently… physically jumping off of things, coming up with crazy ideas to do, risk takers)

Question 3

Deficits that may occur due to a TBI

Answer 3

-Deficits range from mild to server
-Deficits include:
1. Organization, attention and memory(cognitive deficit)
2. Reasoning. Judgment, problem solving(cognitive deficit)
3. Executive functioning(cognitive deficit)…not fully develop till 25
4. Pragmatics (can’t read the room)

Question 4

What is Aphasia

Answer 4

• The loss of ability to comprehend or formulate language typically associated with neurological damage…(*one of the other or both)
• Aphasia makes it difficult to read, write, speak, or understand speech, It impairs language comprehension and expression. It often does not affect “thinking” and “intelligence”, only language. It’s as though the sufferer is suddenly in a foreign-speaking country.

Question 5

12. Does aphasia affect a person’s intelligence?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

Main Characteristic of Anomic Aphasia

Answer 6

-Paraphasia
- words finding deficit (?)

Question 7

How sound change as it travels from air to ear…

Answer 7

1. Outer ear=Acoustic
2. middle ear = mechanical energy
3. inner ear= fluid/hydraulic
4. from inner ear to brain = electric impulse

Question 8

Goals for performing newborn hearing screenings

Answer 8

• screened by 1 month
• diagnosed/ identified HL by 3 months
  -amplified by 6 months

Question 9

*Pure tone audiometry

Answer 9

the the beep sound a at a hearing exam*