Language Perception: Expressive and Receptive Aphasia
Asymbolia
A receptive aphasia that involves difficulty comprehending gestures and symbols.
Aprosodia
A receptive aphasia that involves difficulty comprehending tonal inflections used in conversation. Results from lesions to the right hemisphere language centers
Agraphia
A type of expressive aphasia resulting in the inability to write intelligible words and sentences.
Agrammation
A type of expressive aphasia that involves the inability to arrange words sequentially so that they form intelligible sentences
Acalculia
A type of expressive aphasia that involves the inability to calculate mathematical problems
Anomia
A type of expressive aphasia that involves the inability to remember and express the names of people and objects
Alexithymia
A type of expressive aphasia. Inability to attach words to one's emotions; inability to express one's emotions using words. Dyslexithymia is difficulty attaching words to one's emotions.
Alexia
A type of receptive aphasia resulting in the inability to read and interpret written words. See also Dyslexia (difficulty interpreting the written word).
Broca's Aphasia
Cannot complete a sentence because they cannot find the words They mistakenly use the wrong word
Patients with receptive aphasia from a ___________ hemisphere lesion can still perceive and accurately interpret the emotional tones of a conversation, even though they cannot understand the concrete meaning of the words
LEFT
Expressive Aphasia
Lesion to Broca's Area (Left Hemisphere lesion)
Receptive Aphasia
Lesion to the Wernicke area (Left Hemisphere lesion)
Patients with receptive aphasia from a ______ hemisphere lesion can understand the concrete meaning of the words but not the emotional tone of conversations
RIGHT
Broca's Aphasia
an expressive language disorder in which patient's can understand what is said but cannot express their ideas in an understandable way; they often speak gibberish
Dyslexia
is the impaired ability to read. It is a language problem in which the ability to break down words into their most basic units—phonemes—is impaired.
Expressive Aphasia's effect on Occupational Performance
may get frustrated when they cannot say what they are wanting to say and communicate
Wernicke's aphasia
patients cannot understand what is spoken to them. However they can produce intact sentences (although the meaning of their words does not relate to anything that others have said to them); cannot comprehend the literal interpretation of language
Receptive Aphasia's effect on Occupational Performance
sentences may not make sense; people will not be able to understand what they are trying to say and tend to ask the points to repeat themselves multiple times.
Receptive Aphasia
you hear the voice or see the print, but you cannot make sense of the words. A difficulty in understanding language (comprehension)
Expressive Aphasia
you know what you want to say but you have trouble saying or writing what you mean. Difficulty creating clear, meaningful communication.