| Abulia |
Functional
errors of omission: failing to perform activities to meet basic human
needs:
inability to make decisions; lack of will or willpower. |
| Acalculia |
inability
to do simple arithmetical calculations |
| Anomia |
inability
to recall or recognize names of objects |
| Aphasia |
loss of power of expression by speech, writing, or signs and/or loss
of comprehension of spoken language or written language due to brain
injury or pathology |
| Apraxia |
loss
of ability to carry out familiar, purposeful movements in the absence
of paralysis or other motor or sensory impairments, especially the
inability to make proper use of an object |
| Apraxic
agraphia |
inability
to express oneself in writing due to apraxia |
| Asimultanaanosia |
Inability
to visually integrate the components of ordinarily complex scene into
a coherent whole |
| Atopoaraphaonosia |
inability
to recognize familiar faces |
| Aural
comprehension |
understanding
of stimuli perceived by the ear |
| Constructional
praxis |
inability to copy simple drawings or reproduce patterns of blocks
or matchstick constructions |
| Dysarthria |
imperfect
articulation of speech due to muscular weakness resulting from damage
to the central or peripheral nervous system |
| Echolalia |
stereotyped repetition of another person's words or phrases |
| Executive
function |
ability
to set a goal, make decisions, and implement appropriate activities
towards meeting that goal. |
| Ocular
apraxia |
inability
to voluntarily direct their gaze to a target of visual interest |
| Optic
ataxia |
the
inability to benefit from visual guidance in reaching for an object |
| Paraphasia |
speech
defect characterized by disorderly arrangement of spoken words |
| Phonemic |
speech
sounds that are the basic units of speech (i.e. "leviator' instead
of 'elevator;' or .grontologs" instead of "gerontology") |
| Praxis |
the performance of an action; "doing" |
| Prosody |
the
variations in stress, pitch, and rhythms of speech that convey meanings |
| Prosopagnos'ia |
inability
to recognize faces |
| Semantic
paraphasia |
substituting
a similar word for an object, i.e., "staple" for 'paper
clip' (Caselli, 1995, p. 3) |
| Semantic
precision |
use
of words appropriate or significant to the meaning of the intended
communication. i.e. substituting "machine" for "automobile". |
| Verbal
memory |
ability to remember speech |
| Visual
memory |
Ability
to remember what is seen |
