Wernicke's Aphasia

Superior temporal gyrus

Where is Wernicke’s area / where does Whernicke’s aphasia occur?

Auditory Comprehension

What is primarily affected for Wernicke’s aphasia?

Fluent

Do those with Wernicke’s aphasia have fluent or confluent aphasia?

• Naming

• Repetition

Other than auditory comprehension, what 2 abilities are also impaired?

Neologisms

Phonemes that are sticking together that aren’t real words

Paraphasic errors

Part of a word that is incorrect

Jargon

Those with Wernicke’s aphasia tend to have a lot of THIS (neologisms together)

True

T or F: Those with Wernicke’s aphasia have little awareness of their deficits

False

T or F: those with Wernicke’s aphasia have a strong ability to self-monitor

• Reading

• Writing

Those with Wernicke’s aphasia may have problems with these 2 things and may mirror verbal and comprehension problems

True

T or F: Hemiparesis does not commonly occur with Wernicke’s aphasia

Depression

What may occur as a result of a stroke or reaction to challenges?

Strengths

What are some things that can be used in treatment?

Functional

You want to keep therapy THIS by working with different partners or different settings

Auditory comprehension

You want to pay extra attention to THIS and consider the effect of expression problems on testing of comprehension

• Train basic listening skills and reliable responding

• Treat press of speech

• Treat attention

• Use “chunking”

• Redundancy is good

• Stress important words

• Tell patients to listen

What are some ways to help with auditory comprehension?

Reading

You could use THIS if it is a strength to increase auditory comprehension

Intensive, structured auditory stimulation

What is the most vicarative approach to help functional reorganization and is based on increasing existing language network function

Functional

The goal of conversational training is to keep communication THIS