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| When speech is impaired and not normal, it is called aphasic speech. Aphasias are first categorized as either fluent or non-fluent. They can then be further sub-characterized by whether there are deficits in repetition, comprehension, and naming. | When speech is impaired and not normal, it is called aphasic speech. Aphasias are first categorized as either fluent or non-fluent. They can then be further sub-characterized by whether there are deficits in repetition, comprehension, and naming. | ||
| * **Fluency** | * **Fluency** | ||
| - | * **Fluent**: Patient is able to produce connected speech. Sentence structure is relatively intact but lacks meaning. | + | * **Fluent Aphasia**: Patient is able to produce connected speech. Sentence structure is relatively intact but lacks meaning. |
| - | * **Non-fluent**: Speech production is halting and effortful. Grammar is impaired; content words may be preserved. | + | * **Non-fluent Aphasia**: Speech production is halting and effortful. Grammar is impaired; content words may be preserved. |
| * **Repetition**: Patient is able to repeat words over and over again | * **Repetition**: Patient is able to repeat words over and over again | ||
| * **Language Comprehension**: Patient is able to understand the context and meaning behind sentences and words | * **Language Comprehension**: Patient is able to understand the context and meaning behind sentences and words | ||
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| * Neologisms: a completely new word (e.g. - "bobfrest" instead "tree") | * Neologisms: a completely new word (e.g. - "bobfrest" instead "tree") | ||
| * Perseveration: returning to a same topic or word, over and over again | * Perseveration: returning to a same topic or word, over and over again | ||
| - | * Errors in Speech | + | * **Anomia** |
| + | * Anomia is a symptom of all forms of aphasia, but patients whose primary deficit is word //retrieval// are diagnosed with anomic aphasia. Some level of anomia is seen in all of the aphasias. | ||
| + | * **Fluency Tasks** | ||
| + | * Semantic fluency: is a task that involve producing words belonging to a predetermined semantic category (e.g. - animals, fruits and vegetables) | ||
| + | * Phonemic fluency: is a task that involves producing words beginning with a given letter (e.g. - F, A and S being the most commonly) | ||
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| <callout type="question" icon="true" title="Is it Aphasia or Something Else?"> | <callout type="question" icon="true" title="Is it Aphasia or Something Else?"> | ||
| - | Keep in mind that aphasia is a separate disorder from dysarthria, an impairment of the //motor// functions of speech (i.e. - the actual muscles involved in speech). To distinguish aphasia from anomia, remember that aphasia by definition requires difficulties with naming (e.g. - naming common daily objects). | + | Keep in mind that aphasia is a separate disorder from dysarthria, an impairment of the //motor// functions of speech (i.e. - the actual muscles involved in speech). To distinguish aphasia from dysarthria, remember that aphasia by definition requires difficulties with naming (e.g. - naming common daily objects). |
| </callout> | </callout> | ||