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Back to the Basics: Aphasia
- Aphasia is an impairment of language
- 3 important assessments in an aphasic patient are fluency, comprehension, and repetition (see attached figure)
- Patients with fluent speech are able to generate speech spontaneously, though the content of their speech may have errors
- Patients with non-fluent speech have difficulty initiating speech
- Patients who have fluent speech but are unable to repeat have a problem with comprehension or a disconnect between the sensory and motor components of language
- In Wernicke’s aphasia, patients cannot comprehend what they read and hear
- In conduction aphasia, patients can comprehend what they read and hear
References
Types of aphasia [Online image]. Retrieved February 8, 2017 from https://www.aphasia.org/
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