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Aphasia
- It is an impairmentof language, affecting the production or
comprehension of speech and the ability to read an write
- Brocca´s Aphasia
- In this form of aphasia, speech
output is severaly reduced and is
limited mainly to short utterances
of less than four words.
- Vocabulary is limited, the
transformation of sounds is
laborious and clumsy and the
wirting is also limited.
- Wernick´s Apahasia
- In tis form of aphasia the ability to
grasp the meaning of spoken words
is chiefly impaired, while the ease of
producing connected speech is not
much affected.
- The speech is far from normal.
Reading and wirting are often
impaired
- Conduction Aphasia
- A type of fluent aphasia with a
prominent impairment with repetition.
Damage typically involves the arcuate
fasciculus and the left parietal region.
- The patient will show significant difficulty repeating
phrases, particularly as the phrases increase in length
and complexity and as they stumble over words they
are attempting to pronounce.
- Anomic Aphasia
- This term is applied to persons who are left with a persistent inability to
supply words for the very things they want to talk about particularly
the significant nound and verbs
- Other Cortical syndromes
- In addition to the foregoing
syndromes that are seen repeatedly
by speech clinians, there are many
other possible combinations of deficits
that do not exactly fit into these
categories.
- Some of the components of a
complex aphasia syndrome
may also occur in isolation
- Some other cortical syndromes are:
- agnosia:
- can't recog specific sensory
stimulus despite preserved
sensory fxn
- aphonia
- is the inability to speak
- amnesia:
- inability to remember