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Ma’m Nazia Anwar

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Course Title:
Branches of Linguistics
University of Gujrat
 Topic:
What is Aphasia? It’s types and
symptoms.
 What is Aphasia? (Intro)
• Aphasia is one kind of language disorder that
results from damage to the parts of brain that
contain language.
• Aphasia causes problems in the ability to
perceive, process or produce language.
• Aphasia occurs in various forms and degrees.
• Aphasia usually occurs suddenly often as a result
of a stroke or head injury but it may also develop
slowly as in the case of brain tumor.
 Major divisions of Aphasia
• All aphasias can be classified into two groups.
• 1. Fluent Aphasia
• 2. Non-fluent Aphasia
 What is Fluent Aphasia?
• The inability to understand the language of
the other and production of less meaningful
speech than normal is known as fluent
Aphasia. Fluent Aphasia division contains:
• 1. Wernicke’s Aphasia
• 2. Conduction Aphasia
 What is Non-fluent Aphasia?
• Difficulty in producing fluent, articulated or
self-initiated speech is known as non-fluent
aphasia. Non-fluent Aphasia division contains:
• 1. Broca’s Aphasia
• 2. Global Aphasia
 Wernicke’s Aphasia
• This is caused by the damage of Wernicke’s area
located near the back section of auditory
cortex.
• It is very difficult for people with Wernicke’s
Aphasia to understand the speech of others.
• The one suffering from this aphasia may speak
in long sentences that have no meaning, add
un-necessary words and even create made up
words.
 Cont.
• These patients often misinterpret what others
say and respond in an unexpected way.
• They use expressions that people use when
they are unable to name the word they want.
• Often of them cannot follow simple
instructions.
• The syntactic order of words is also altered.
 Cont.
• Their appreciation of musical sound may be
lost. (Amusia)
• The subject cannot recognize letters or words.
• Cannot repeat words or write dictation but
spontaneous speech writing and reading are
unimpaired.
 Symptoms of Wernicke’s Aphasia
• The patient require extra time to understand
spoken message.
• The patient finds it very hard to follow fast.
• It is frustrating for the person with aphasia
and for listener can lead to communication
break down.
 What is Conduction Aphasia?
• It is also known as central aphasia or Goldstein.
• This results from damage to the arcuate fasciculus
which results in serving the connection between
the Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas.
• The patient is able to understand speech and
correctly interpret words from the mental lexicon
but it will not be able to transmit information to
Broca’s area so that words can be articulated.
 Symptoms of Conduction Aphasia
• The patient uses fluent but meaningless
speech but he shows signs of being able to
comprehend the speech of others.
• The patient will be able to understand
utterance but will not be able to repeat them.
 Broca’s Aphasia
• It is also known as expressive or motor
aphasia or interior aphasia.
• This is caused by the damage to Broca’s area
located at the base of motor cortex.
• The patient speaks haltingly and has a hard
time forming complete words when they
attempt to produce language.
 Cont.
• The patient understands the speech of others
fairly well.
• Their handwriting is usually defected and there
is poverty and lack of precision of written
language, though copying is relatively impaired.
• He may have some difficulty in matching the
correct semantic interpretation to the syntactic
order of sentence.
 Symptoms of Broca’s Aphasia
• The patient speaks only in single word.
• He speaks in short fragmented phrases.
• He omits smaller words like “the”, “of” and
“and”.
• The patient puts words in wrong order.
• The patient makes up words that are jargons.
• He strings together non-sense words and real
words fluently but it makes no sense.
 Global Aphasia
• Global Aphasia results from damage to
extensive portion of language areas of brain.
• Individuals with global aphasia have severe
communication difficulties and may be
extremely limited in their ability to speak or
comprehend language.
• The global aphasics have problems with both
using words and understanding.
Thank You!