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-defective production of synatx and grammatical morphology
-tense, number and gender agreement maybe violated
-this is a symptom of many broca's aphasics, also seen in other types of aphasia |
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-fluent but semantically empty speech (jargon)
-phonemic substitutions
-newly created words(neologisms)
-auditory comprehension is often impared |
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-inablility to repeat inpt
-speak fluently, preserved comprehension
-caused by damage to nerve that connects wernicke's and broca's area |
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-repitition is spared
-either comprehension or production is impaired
-link between wernicke's and brocas area is preserved
-there are 3 types of transcortical aphasias |
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| transcortical motor aphasia |
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-spontaneous production is comprimised
-lesions located deep in the frontal lobe and anterior or superior to broca's area
-these symptoms are not as evident during repition (this is the main difference between this and broca's aphasia) |
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| transcortical sensory aphasia |
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-similar to wernicke's aphasia
-fluent but incoherent speech
-repitition still good |
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| mixed transcortical aphasia |
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-severely limited spontaneous speech
-very poor auditory comprehension
-preserved repitition ability |
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inability to retrieve object names
-often a result of damage to angular gyrus at the junction of the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes |
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| inapporpriate substitution that can happen at a variety of language levels. |
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-patient can hear but cannot comprehend or repeat auditorally-presented words.
-can usually speak fluently
-injury to heschl's gyrus |
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| cannot read although they can speak and understand spoken language |
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| disorder of the exectuion of learned movement that often co-occurs with various aphasias. |
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-disturbance of formulating and/or comprehending language
-result of damage or disease of CNS
-can also affect reading, writing, and sign language of the deaf. |
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-totally unable to communicate using language.
-production limited to a few words or syllables
-comprehension is minimal
-extensive left-hemisphere damage |
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| Short term Global Aphasia |
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-seen immediately following stroke or injury
-may resolve into less severe syndrome or complete recovery in a matter of weeks or months
-language centres remained intact be were not accessible to the patients due to the severe nature of their initial trauma |
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| -normal rate, good prosody and articulation with normal-length sentences |
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| -hesitant and effortful with reduced utterance length, prosody and articulation maybe be abnormal. |
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-non-fluent speech
-determiners, prepositions, inflectional affixes often left out
-comprehension is normally spared
-reading, writing poor
-difficulty comprehending complex syntactic structures |
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