Types of Aphasia Flashcards
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Wernicke’s Aphasia
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- Fluent/Hyperfluent speech
- Poor Auditory/Visual Comprehension
- Verbal Paraphasia or Unintended words and Neologisms
- Sentences formed by strings of unrelated words, jargon
- Mild to severe impairment in naming and imitative speech
- Intonational/Sound-Combination patterns maintained.
- Poor repetition
- Posterior portions of the left temporal lobe
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Anomic Aphasia
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- Severe Anomia in both speech and writing
- Fluent spontaneous speech marred by word retrieval difficulties
- Mild to moderate auditory comprehension problems
- Memory difficulties evident.
- Imitated/repetitive language less affected
- Parietal-temporal-occipital cortex
- Fluent aphasia
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Conduction Aphasia
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- Fluent
- Anomia
- Mild impairment of auditory comprehension, if any
- Extremely poor repetitive or imitative speech
- Paraphasia or inappropriate use of words formed by the addition of sounds and incorrect ordering of sounds or by substituting related words
- Self correction attempts
- Damage deep below brain surface between areas where language is formulated and speech programmed.
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Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
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- Rarest Fluent
- Unimpaired ability to repeat or imitate words, phrases, and sentences
- Verbal paraphasia or word substitutions
- Lack of nouns and severe anomia
- Poor auditory comprehension
- Echolalic Speech
- Damage isolates language areas from other areas of cortical control
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Subcortical Aphasia
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- Fluent
- Needed Neuro-imaging to prove
- Lesions are deep in brain without cerebral cortex
- Fluent expressive speech
- Paraphasia and neologisms
- Repetition unaffected
- Auditory and reading comprehension relatively unaffected
- Cognitive deficits and reduced vigilance
- Often have word-finding difficulties, perseveration, nonimitative speech
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Broca’s Aphasia
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- Nonfluent
- Damage to anterior or forward parts of frontal lobe of left cerebral hemisphere, Broca’s aphasia
- Short sentences with agrammatism
- Anomia
- Problem with imitation of speech because of overall speech problems
- Slow, labored speech and writing
- Articulation and phonological errors
- Auditory Comprehension can be subtly affected
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Transcorital Motor Aphasia
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- Nonfluent
- Difficulty initiating speech or writing
- Impaired speech
- Good verbal imitative abilities
- Mildly impaired Aud. comp.
- Damage to motor cortex, but also below the surface of the brain
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Global/Mixed Aphasia
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- Nonfluent
- Global more severe
- Profound language impairment in all modalities
- Limited spontaneous expressive ability of a few words or stereotypes, overlearned utterances/emotional responses
- Imitative speech and naming affected
- Auditory and visual comprehension limited to single words or short phrases
- Large deep lesion below brain surface.
- Often both anterior speech, broca’s, and posterior language, wernicke’s are affected
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Fluent Aphasia
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- Word Substitutions
- Neologisms
- Verbose verbal output
- Damage to posterior portions of LH
- Typically have typical rate, intonation, pauses, and stree patterns
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Non Fluent Aphasia
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- Slow, labored speech and struggle to retrieve words and form sentenecs.
- Site of lesion is typically near frontal lobe, Broca’s area, speech portion
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Agnosia
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- Sensory deficit making it difficult to understand incoming sensory information.
- May be specific to auditory or visual information
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Agrammatism
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- Omission of grammatical elements
2. Omit articles, endings, unstressed words
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Alexia
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- Reading problems
- May be unable to recognize words they speak/write
- Paraphasia and neologisms may also be present
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Anomia
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- Difficulty Naming entities
2. May have incorrect response even when client realizes mistake
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Jargon
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Meaningless/irrelevant speech with typical intonational patterns
