Aphasia Categories

Question 1

Anomia Aphasia

Answer 1

Fluency, comprehension, and repetition are good
Naming/word problems

Question 2

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 2

Fluency and comprehension is good
Repetition is not
Phonemic paraphasias, impacts sesorimotor intergration

Question 3

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

Answer 3

Comprehension is bad
Repetition and fluency is good
Not common, can repeat sentences

Question 4

Wernicke’s (receptive) Aphasia

Answer 4

Fluency is good
Comprehension and repetition is bad
Fluent but empty, neologisms, paraphasias naming, typically unaware of errors

Question 5

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Answer 5

Comprehension and repetition is good
Fluency is bad
Not common, can repeat sentences

Question 6

Broca’s (expressive) Aphasia

Answer 6

Comprehension is good
Fluency and repetition is bad
Nonfluent, poor repetitions on longer utterances

Question 7

Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

Answer 7

Repetition is good
Comprehension and Fluency is bad
Not common, can repeat sentences

Question 8

Global Aphasia

Answer 8

Comprehension, Fluency, and Repetition is bad.
Limited output, cannot read or write, few recognizable words

Question 9

Paraphasia

Answer 9

Speech disturbance from brain damage in which words are jumbled and sentences meaningless

Question 10

Hat –> Dat
Telephone –> Tephalone

Answer 10

Phonemic paraphasia

Question 11

“Orange” instead of “Apple”
“Son” instead of “Daughter”

Answer 11

Semantic Paraphasia
Always a real word, but may not be related to target word

Question 12

Neologisms

Answer 12

Using new words or made up words

Question 13

“Slunker” for “Toothbrush”
“Glimbop” for “shirt”

Answer 13

Neologism

Question 14

Agrammatism

Answer 14

Difficulty with using basic grammar and syntax, word order and sentence structure deficits

Question 15

“Wife come hospital”
“Trees.. children..running.”

Answer 15

Agrammatism