Broca's Aphasi A Case Study

Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects many adults and families. Aphasia occurs as a result of damage to the language-specific areas of the brain (ASHA, 2014). Individuals with aphasia may experience difficulties with oral language, receptive language, memory, attention writing, and reading. There are a myriad of approaches designed for the treatment of aphasia. Two treatment approaches, Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness (P.A.C.E.) and Constraint Induced Language Therapy (C.I.L.T.), and their efficacy in regard to available evidence will be discussed below.

(2) Progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) is characterised by problems with speech production. Individuals may struggle to find the correct words when engaging in conversation. Often individuals will struggle to pronounce words correctly (especially if they have more than two syllables), and their speech will lack appropriate grammar. Problems understanding speech can also be present, especially if the sentence contains complex grammar.

Expressive aphasia is the loss of ability to convey one’s thoughts through speech or writing. A patient with expressive aphasia knows what they want to say but have trouble finding the words that is needed to state what they mean. Some of the symptoms that is shown by a person with expressive aphasia are slow speech, spelling or grammatical errors, have trouble getting certain

JR has mild, fluent, anomic aphasia. People with fluent aphasia have difficulties understanding spoken and written language, but expression is mostly within normal limits (Robb, 2014). JR has difficulties naming certain words, often nouns. For example, she was having trouble naming ‘Riverstone’, a restaurant, so instead she said “Dot’s (the owner) place near the Waitaki River”. She mainly communicates verbally, but is not afraid to show us something using her body if she cannot express what she would like using words. For example, she has an oddly shaped ball in her living room which we asked about. She then demonstrated to us how she uses the

Nearly one million individuals within the United States experience aphasia resulting from a stroke. The website for the American Heart Association states that strokes are the third leading cause of death in the United States. They are often referred to as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). This occurs when the blood flow to the brain has been either stopped or interrupted. The deprivation of blood flow and oxygen to the brain results in a stroke. Around 41.2 percent of individuals who suffered from a stroke will have aphasia (Guyomard et al., 2009). Manasco (2014) stated that aphasia is a deficit in language abilities resulting from the brain. It is broken down into, two categories fluent and non-fluent. Individuals with aphasia typically suffer from anomia. This is a condition where word retrieval (anomia) is difficult. “Most unimpaired individuals do not need to put forth any effort to express themselves verbally. However,

Expressive aphasia, also known as Broca’s aphasia, impairs the way in which a person’s language is produced. Although this type of aphasia impairs a person’s ability to speak, they are still able to use the other aspects of language, such as comprehending when someone is speaking to them. Broca’s aphasia may cause long pauses between words, this is called dysprosody, and leaving out important words or endings of words, which is known as agrammatism. This type of aphasia occurs when there is traumatic damage to what is referred to as the Broca’s area of the brain. Treatment of Broca’s aphasia is done by a Speech Language Pathologist, and is different for each person depending on their specific needs. Receptive aphasia, known as Wernicke’s aphasia, impairs one’s ability to understand themselves and others. The way that they speak is barely comprehensible; this is known as logorrhea. Patients with Wernicke’s aphasia may have something called anosagnosia, which makes them believe that what they are saying is being understood. This type of aphasia makes it very difficult for SLP’s to treat because of the anosognosia. Wernicke’s aphasia is caused by damage to what is known as the Wernicke’s area of the

Human beings occasionally suffer bad damage to particular parts of their brains. Unfortunately, these injuries may lead to major failure of speech production, understanding language and comprehension which most of the patients suffer it permanently. This impairment is called Aphasia. Gayle (2012) states that people with aphasia fail to understand sentence comprehension although it is a simple sentence. She also mentioned that aphasia patients also have difficulty in reading and understanding speeches. According to Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams (2011), aphasia is a scientific term used to explained language disorder due to brain injuries caused by diseases or trauma. In other words, aphasia involves partial or total loss of the ability to

The dysfunction I choose to write about is Aphasia. I choose Aphasia because I have always been very interested in the brain and how important its function is to quality of life. Aphasia is a communication and comprehension disorder that is a result of damage to the area of the brain responsible for language. This area is usually located on the left side of the brain. Aphasia was discover by a French neuroanatomist name Paul Broca’s.

Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, these are parts of the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. “Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage”. (Sarno 23)

Another serious type of aphasia is Broca’s Aphasia. Broca’s Aphasia differs from Wernicke’s aphasia because individuals that suffer from this disorder can easily comprehend because their auditory comprehension is unimpaired, but they are unable to control their articulators and motor planning in order to produce their own speech. Broca’s Aphasia is also known as “nonfluent” or

Acquired
AOS affects people of all ages, but it occurs most commonly in adults with existing speech and language abilities (Ballard, Granier, & Robin, 2000). Duffy (2013) states that aphasic phonological impairments can be confused with and often is incorrectly diagnosed as AOS because of the linguistic input regarding speech. However, “pure” AOS may be present in the absence of aphasia. To distinguish between “pure” AOS and aphasia, examine the prosody and ease of production (Cuellar, 2014). Also, errors are consistent in aphasia, whereas in AOS, errors re highly variable. Individuals with AOS will present with slow, effortful speech in conjunction with abnormal prosody, which is considered hallmark characteristics to acquired

To begin the discussion on the language and speech coordination within the brain and the research conducted within the research, I will first differentiated between aphasia and apraxia as the two are often confused due their overlapping nature. The “language organ” of the brain has been traditionally known as Wernecki’s area, Broca’s area, and the perisylvian strip (Kean). When any or several of these regions are damaged, the following disorder in language is known as aphasia. Aphasia can involve varying levels of difficulty involved in understanding and producing speech. In the past, apraxia has often been understood as a part of aphasia however the two have been found to be distinct language disorders.

Plane: He and his wife learned different ways to communicate and how to help each other understand the other, within the first session of treatment. While Wernicke’s aphasia can be tough, improvement through intensive aphasia therapy is definitely our goal, and production level will be raised to the

When the particular information processes in the brain fails and causes Broca’s aphasia, a chain reaction occurs consequently leading to various speech disorders. As for the individual’s comprehension, it has been long believed to remain unaffected although studies are beginning to prove otherwise.

Is a form of aphasia which indicates that the person suffering from it speaks in an ungrammatical manner. Adam Szczegielniak argues that agrammatism is not a well defined phenomenon.35 Common characteristics of all definitions are that agrammatism involves grueling speech, and an absence of use of grammar in language production. The speech of an agrammatic person is usually reffered to as 'telegraphic speech', because it resembles the language used in telegraph communication,