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Aphasia Expression
Aphasia Verbal and Written Expression
Question | Answer |
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Verbal expression for Global Aphasia | Severe verbal expression and speech production Speech characterized by stereotypical utterances and automatics |
Written expression for Global Aphasia | Minimum to no communication |
Verbal expression for Broca's Aphasia | Decreased length of utterances (WPM reduced) Predominance of nouns and verbs Reduced prosody Halting, agrammatic/telegraphic Naming/word finding deficits |
Written expression for Broca's Aphasia | Mirrors verbal expression Predominance of content words Omission of function words Need to consider motor impairment (gross and fine) and pt writing with non-dominant hand. |
Verbal expression for Transcortical Motor Aphasia | Frontal lesion causes reduced initiation in speech and motoric responses Intact ability to repeat |
Verbal expression for Transcortical Sensory Aphasia | Echolalic Similar to Wernicke's with the exception of repetition and press for speech |
Verbal expression for Wernicke's Aphasia | Effortless, prosodic (WPM WNL). Halting and pauses are due to anomia. Pressed for speech (poor self monitoring) Paraphasic errors: semantic and phonemic Neologisms/jargon Circumlocution due to naming/word finding deficits Vague, empty |
Written expression for Wernicke's Aphasia | Mirrors verbal expression Fluent, effortless output Paraphasias, neologisms, paragrammatic Meaningless, empty content |
Verbal expression for Conduction Aphasia | Fluent output Contains paraphasias Anomia/word finding deficits |
Written expression for Conduction Aphasia | Fluent output Mirrors verbal skills Anomia/word finding deficits |
Verbal expression for Anomic Aphasia | Fluent output Anomia/word finding deficits Circumlocution May appear halting or non fluent due to anomia. |
Written expression for Anomic Aphasia | Similar to verbal expression Word finding errors |