PSYC 301 Aphasia and Communication Disorders

aphasia

impairment in language processing affecting reading and writing; expressive and/or receptive

Expressive/Broca's aphasia

comprehension intact; effort and halting speech, phonemic paraphasic and anomic errors often accompanied by compensatory behaviours

Phonemic paraphasias

Substituting words with similar sounds.

receptive/Wernicke's aphasia

comprehension impaired; unaware of deficits with fluent but nonsensical speech, with semantic paraphasia and neurologisms

Anomic error

tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

neurologism

made up word sounds

semantic paraphasia

Substitution of one word for another that is similar in meaning

apraxia of speech

difficulty in the appropriate coordination of the motor movements required to produce well formed speech sounds; often also Broca's aphasia, very aware of the impairment

aprosodia

inability to produce or understand prosody and comprehension in tact; usually lesion in right-anterior or temporoparietal regions

prosody

tone, emphasis, and emotional expression in speech; sarcasm

alexia

acquired inability to read and usually accompanied by agraphia; different issues depending on lesion location

surface alexia

difficulty reading/spelling irregular words; left ventral temporal lob lesion;