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.