Chapter 9 terms

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Across
  1. 2. impaired understanding of the meaning of stimuli although no sensory organs are impaired
  2. 3. nonsense syllables are uttered or several words run together as one
  3. 5. difficulty performing mathematical tasks
  4. 6. loss of previously acquired reading skills
  5. 9. persistent repetition of phrases and utterances
  6. 11. verbal output often limited to nouns and verbs, with omissions of function words
  7. 14. lack of awareness of their language impairment
  8. 15. beating around the bush because of a lack of access to precise words
  9. 17. parrot-like repetition of what is heard
Down
  1. 1. literal (substituting letter, syllables) and semantic (substitution of words)
  2. 4. the use of words that only have meaning to the person using them
  3. 7. alterations in inflection, stress, and rhythm
  4. 8. slow rate of speech
  5. 10. syllable or series of syllables the patient utters without variations
  6. 12. inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion
  7. 13. initial speechlessness or delay in time to initiate speech
  8. 14. loss of previously acquired writing skills
  9. 16. excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
  10. 18. difficulty in naming mainly nouns, verbs and adverbs