Types of Aphasia

Question 1

Nonfluent aphasia:
speech production is ?

what is impaired?

what is preserved

Answer 1

halting and effortful

grammar

content words

Question 2

Nonfluent aphasias:
when language comprehension is intact ?

when language comprehension is impaired ?

Answer 2

Brocas: repetition of words/phrases poor

transcortical motor:
strong reptition skills, may have diff. spontaneously answering questions

global aphasia: severe expressive and receptive language impairment; may be able to comm. using facial expression, intonation, and gestures

Question 3

fluent aphasia:
person is able to ?

sentence structure is relatively ? but lacks?

Answer 3

produce connected speech

intact but lacks meaning

Question 4

Fluent aphasias:
language comprehension relatively intact

language comprehension impaired

Answer 4

conduction aphasia: word finding diff., diff. repeating phrases
anomic aphasia: repetition of words/phrases good, word finding diff., uses generic fillers or circumlocution

wernickes: repetition of words phrases poor

transcortical sensory aphasia: repetition of words phrases good, may repeat questions rather than answer (echolalia)