Your 70 Year-Old Outpatient Has Dysarthria Resulting from a Stroke

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Multiple Choice

Your 70 year-old outpatient has dysarthria resulting from a stroke.The patient's symptoms include slurred speech,a low volume,and breathy sounding voice.You find it very difficult to understand the patient when providing feedback about completion of home-related activities.Select a "tip" or strategy that might be especially helpful to try in this situation:

• A)Quit asking the patient questions in order to eliminate an embarrassing situation for both you and the patient.
• B)Pretend to understand.You do not want to increase the patient's frustration by creating difficult communication situations.
• C)Be honest: Repeat back that part of the message you understood and ask the person to repeat the portion that you did not understand.
• D)Ask the care provider who brings the patient to therapy to interpret or talk for the patient.

Comprehend the concept of homeostasis and its importance in drive reduction.

Describe how needs lead to drives and how they relate to human motivation.

Understand the application of drive-reduction theory in explaining human behavior.

Explain how physiological needs lead to motivated states.

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