types of aphasia

Question 1

Nonfluent, 
Language comprehension
relatively intact,
repetition of
words/phrases poor

Answer 1

Broca’s Aphasia

Question 2

Nonfluent,
Language comprehension
relatively intact,
strong repetition skills; may
have difficulty spontaneously
answering questions

Answer 2

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Question 3

Nonfluent,
Language comprehension
impaired,
severe expressive and receptive language impairment; may be able to communicate using facial expression, intonation, and gestures

Answer 3

Global Aphasia

Question 4

Fluent,
Language comprehension
relatively intact,
word finding difficulties; difficulty repeating phrases

Answer 4

Conduction Aphasia

Question 5

Fluent,
Language comprehension
relatively intact,
repetition of words/phrases good; word finding difficulties; uses generic fillers (e.g., “thing”) or
circumlocution

Answer 5

Anomic Aphasia

Question 6

Fluent,
Language comprehension
impaired,
repetition of words/phrases
poor

Answer 6

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Question 7

Fluent,
Language comprehension
impaired,
repetition of words/phrases good; may repeat questions rather than answering them (“echolalia”)

Answer 7

Transcortical Sensory

Aphasia

Question 8

a type of dementia. It is characterized by gradual loss of language function in the context of relatively well-preserved
memory, visual processing, and personality until the advanced stages

Answer 8

Primary progressive aphasia

Question 9

when a person demonstrates language impairment after suffering damage to the hemisphere on the dominant side of the body, rather than the alternate side.
(a right handed
person who develops aphasia following a right hemisphere stroke)

Answer 9

Crossed aphasia

Question 10

results from damage to subcortical regions of the brain (e.g., thalamus
or basal ganglia), and symptoms can mirror those that arise from cortical lesions.

Answer 10

Subcortical aphasia