CD 422: Definitions of Aphasia

For people in CD 422: Acquired Neurological Disorders at the University of Alabama.

Nontypological Definitioins

Definitions that label aphasia as a unitary disorder

Typological Definitions

Definitions that believe in types of aphasia

Cognitive Definitions

Based on the idea that cognition underlies language and that if language is impaired, some aspects of cognition must also be impaired

Social Definitions

The belief that aphasia is not limited to linguistic or cognitive deficits

Salient Symptoms of Aphasia

• Anomia

• Paraphasia

• Disorders of Fluency

• Difficulty repeating

• Difficulty understanding spoken language

• Agraphia

• Alexia