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A 55-year-old patient with a history of bowel resection is receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) through a central venous catheter. What finding would be of concern to the nurse? 

Which of the following is not a complication of TPN?

1.)Name a famous person that you learned about in Chapter 8 who stutters (other than James Earl Jones).  Were you surprised to learn that that person stutters?  Describe why or why not? 

Children with cerebral palsy may demonstrate visual, auditory, and cognitive impairments that could affect their development of speech and language abilities. 

Which of the following disorders is caused by brain damage to the left frontal lobe and characterized by difficulties in the planning & programming of speech movements?

List what the following abbreviations stand for: AOSCASAACCPASHASLPSGDVSD

For the following descriptions, select the term, abbreviation or characteristic that best matches the description of the motor speech disorder.

Which of the following are considered to be non-stuttering-like (typical) disfluencies?

In the communicative competence framework, which term refers to the expressive and receptive skills and knowledge of one’s native language and the linguistic code specific to AAC?

1.)Name two types of dysarthria.