APHASIA
SUMMARY
1. Language: symbolic organization of sounds into meaningful words & sentences to represent thought.
2. Aphasia is an impairment of the ability to utilize language due to an injury to the brain.
3. It is characterized by paraphasias, word-finding difficulties, and impaired comprehension.
4. Common disturbances occur in reading & writing, non-verbal construction, problem-solving & gesturing.
5. Note: language areas are anatomically clustered around the sylvian fissure of the dominant (left) hemisphere in 97% of the population[1]
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DEFINITIONS
6. Non-fluent aphasia: reduced rate of speech and limited language output.
7. Transcortical aphasia: intact repetition.
Boston School of Aphasia Classification:
Reference(s)
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