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