propositional speech vs automatic speech

Question 1

What speech is particularly affected by aphasia?

Answer 1

Propositional Speech.

Question 2

Define Propositional Speech.

Answer 2

This is spontaneous speech. It conveys thought and involves language processing in context. This is the ability to use vocabulary for a particular context that they are in and with the right grammatical form.

Question 3

What doe many PwA struggle with?

Answer 3

They struggle with propositional speech, but will retain some automatic speech.

Question 4

What speech is somewhat retained?

Answer 4

Automatic speech.

Question 5

What is automatic speech?

Answer 5

This speech comes ready made, it’s preformulated by the speaker.

Question 6

What does automatic speech not involve?

Answer 6

Automatic speech doesn’t involve language processing in context like propositional speech does.

Question 7

Name examples of automatic utterances.

Answer 7

Counting
Days of the week
Social pharses e.g. hello, fine thanks
Favourite song
Swearing

Question 8

Why may automatic speech be present?

Answer 8

Due to activity of the undamaged non-language hemisphere (usually the right).

Question 9

Does automatic speech have any prognostic significance for recovery?

Answer 9

Nope.

Question 10

What must we note in assessment/therapy?

Answer 10

That phrase completion tasks are semi-automatic and success doesn’t indicate spontaneous ability to retrieve words e.g. “fish and chips”.