Aphasia Flashcards
What types of aphasia are considered fluent?
Wernicke’s, anomic, conduction, and transcortical sensory
What types of aphasia are considered non-fluent?
Broca’s, transcortical motor, and global
Regarding verbal communication, symptoms of aphasia include
trouble saying sentences, trouble retrieving words, distort sounds in words (i.e., phonemic paraphasia), create new words (i.e.,neologisms), substitute words (i.e., semantic paraphasias such as “cat” instead of a dog)
Regarding comprehension, symptoms of aphasia include
trouble understanding jokes, puns, or language that is not straightforward; trouble understanding someone who is talking about an unfamiliar topic; trouble recognizing an object by its name; following directions
Regarding reading and writing, symptoms of aphasia include
trouble doing math; trouble reading from screens and books; trouble putting words together to create sentences
What are symptoms of Broca’s aphasia
slow rate of speech, short utterances (i.e., three to four words), difficulty repeating sounds, words, and phrases; intact language comprehension
What are symptoms of transcortical motor aphasia?
intact language comprehension; strong repetition skills; may struggle to spontaneously answer questions
What are symptoms of global aphasia?
difficulty understanding spoken and written language; difficulty speaking as well; can communicate using facial expression, intonation, and gestures
What are symptoms of conduction aphasia?
word finding difficulties; difficulty repeating phrases;
What are symptoms of anomic aphasia?
word finding difficulties; no trouble with repeating words and phrases; use general fillers (e.g., “think) or circumlocution
What are symptoms of Wernicke’s Aphasia?
poor repetition of words and phrases; neologisms; paraphasias; produce long and nonsensical sentences
What are symptoms of transcortical sensory aphasia?
fluent; can repeat words and phrases; may repeat questions instead of answer them (i.e., echolalia)
