quiz 1 Flashcards
• Paraphasia
unintentional speech errors produced by a person with aphasia. Produce alternative word instead of intended word
Verbal/semantic paraphasia
errors semantically related to target → window for door or spoon for knife, father for mother
Unrelated paraphasia
substitutions with no clear relationship with target word → cigarette for motorcycle.
• Perseveration:
Perseverative paraphasia →substitutions in which a previously used word is substituted for a target word.
• Circumlocution:
deliberate use of a substitute word for a word that a patient cannot retrieve → talking around missing words
• Stereotypic utterance:
Overlearned utterances such as “thank you!” “How are you?” or “Good, thank you”
• Anomia:
Inability to produce intended word, due to word finding and/or word retrieval problems.
• Telegraphic speech (Agrammatic)
Most function words are missing from speech
• Agraphia
(inability to write)
• Alexia
(inability to read)
Phonemic jargon -
sound like a foreign language
➢ Semantic jargon
– sounds like you should be able to understand what is being said but you cannot grasp the content
Phonemic/literal paraphasia:
Phonological errors – sounds similar to target word
poon for spoon
• Agrammatism
Telegraphic speech, lack function words.
• Paragrammatism:
Incomplete sentences or two sentences fused together into one long inadequate sentence
