Broca's Aphasi A Case Study

Clearly, the main utility of this examination is to place patients into the appropriate diagnostic categories. The strengths of this examination is its shortness of length while still retaining validity and its inclusion of valid scales that measure qualitative forms of speech output. An important strength of the BDAE is the fact that its figures in which the scale is rated on, have been standardized based on many conclusive administrations. (Borod, Goodglass, Kaplan, 1980). Another strength of the BDAE is that it has been praised for having little bias in regard to racial tendencies, except in the case of three subtests. In a study that set out to locate racial bias in regard to three major tests of aphasia, results revealed that the BDAE and the MTDDA had no statistically different results in regard to age, gender, or race. (Molrine & Pierce,

Therefore, speech becomes agrammatic and difficult to comprehend, often due to a significant shortage of verbs and phonological errors in conversational speech 6. Additionally, agrammatism in nfvPPA may include omitting required determiners, and failure to produce appropriate subject – verb agreement 7. As the disease progresses, language impairment becomes more prominent and speech fluency decreases. The language profile of semantic variant PPA, is characterized by a progressive loss of semantic knowledge 8. Thus, patients with svPPA lose the meaning of words and concepts, seen particularly in the context of naming and single-word comprehension 9. At present, there has been considerably less research focusing on the treatment of FTD than that of AD. Currently available FTD medications have been used to control behavioral symptoms although they are expensive and ineffective in some patients 10. However, there are no FDA-approved medications specifically indicated for the treatment of FTD 11. Therefore, complementary or alternative non-pharmacological approaches in patients with FTD are of great

6 monolingual English speakers between the ages of 39 and 84 with aphasia from Austin, TX hospitals. All had left-hemisphere stroke, stroke onset at least 6 months before, were right-handed, had high school diploma, and normal vision and

During the clinical observations I observed a 60-year-old man whose clinical diagnosis is non-fluent aphasia. To improve on his conversation skills he has worked with the clinician using conversational therapy. When viewing the session, the client expressed an understanding when asked questions on cars and movies. Most of the time he was intelligible, but it becomes hard to understand him when he stops to retrieve a word. As this takes place, he uses SAF or AAC’s triggering for the word he did not remember. His AAC’s consisted of unaided and aided communication systems using his body to receive kinesthetic feedbacks and his phone. He not only expressed his ideas, but demonstrates an interest on his goals for this session and semester. By asking

Acute post-traumatic Broca’s Aphasia is a condition where the neurons contained in Broca’s area, a section of the brain that is responsible for speech fluidity, are rendered ineffective following a traumatic experience such as a stroke, presence of a tumour, or an infection. Common symptoms include difficulty speaking, comprehending speech, and writing. Affecting one in 250 Americans today, Aphasia is more common than other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, muscular dystrophy, or cerebral palsy. Despite the plethora of people affected by Broca’s Aphasia, currently speech therapy is the only effective treatment. The purpose of this experiment is to create an implant composed of artificially synthesized neurons that replaces

The book Finding My Voice with Aphasia: Walking through Aphasia by Carol M. Maloney, started as a flashback to the author’s years in high school. At first, I thought that the author wanted to highlight her youth years, and remind the reader of her past. As I continued reading, I realized that her life experiences prior to her stroke were vital to her recovery.

The neuroanatomical approach to aphasia relies on the localization of lesions on the brain in addition to clinical observation in order to classify patients according to syndromes. For example, according to the neuroanatomical approach, Broca’s aphasia, which us usually associated with a lesions on the posterior inferior frontal gyrus of the brain, has cardinal features that distinguish is from other fluent and non-fluent aphasias (e.g. poor repetition, poor repetition and poor naming with good auditory comprehension).

Throughout the course of the semester, I gained a new perspective of individuals who are impacted by aphasia and related disorders. Video

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

After suffering from a stroke, many victims go through rehabilitation to help regain the language skills they lost from their stroke. Specific abilities that are lost or impaired are speech and language skills, which result in acquiring aphasia. In 2001, constraint induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) was introduced by Friedemann Pulvermuller. It is a therapeutic technique that allows one to achieve their individual vocational communication needs. CIAT is known to be one of the most successful forms of therapy for aphasiac patients with promising and positive outcomes. Because of CIAT’s stringent treatment structure, one’s brain is trained to use its cognitive and vocational abilities that may have been damaged during the stroke. CIAT requires patients to use spoken language instead of other forms of nonverbal communication that they naturally want to use. Unlike many other forms of therapy, CIAT helps one to expand their expressive output abilities and their personal language production skills. Although stroke rehabilitation does not entirely restore brain damage, constraint induced aphasia therapy can significantly help one achieve their vocational communication needs again.

This study had a sample size of four participants who experienced a left middle cerebral artery cerebrovascular accident and have one of three types of aphasia: anomic aphasia, Broca’s aphasia, or transcortical motor aphasia (Kalinyak-Fliszar et al., 2015). Each participant had two sessions with a VC and two sessions with a HC a day and the study lasted eight days. The participants role-played with the clinician and practiced real-life situations using four scripts. The sessions were classified as prepractice sessions, practice sessions, or postpractice sessions. Using AphasiaScripts, the VC has natural sounding speech and responds to the patient to carry on a natural conversation (Kalinyak-Fliszar et al., 2015). A designated person was behind the VC controlling the speech output of the device. The conversations between the clinician and the participant were recorded for later examination. Words and information units (IU) were counted from the recorded responses of the participants. The quantity of information was typically higher in the interaction with the VC, but the quality of information exchanged varied between the interaction with the VC and HC. Over the course of the sessions, two participants showed improvement

Major signs and symptoms of Broca’s aphasia include non-fluent speech and poor repetition abilities (Murdoch, 2010). Brain Based Communication Disorders (2010) recognizes additional signs and symptoms including consonant and vowel distortions, slow and hesitant speech rate, and an increase in errors as utterance length and complexity increase for the individual with Broca’s aphasia. Anomia, a symptom featured in this type of aphasia, inhibits an individual to recollect words; not limited to nouns (Harryman, Kresheck, & Nicolosi, 1996).

Aphasia is a disorder that causes damage to several parts of the brain that are responsible for language, it gets in the way of a person’s capability to comprehend words. The area of the brain that is responsible of language is the left side of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs when someone gets a stroke or a serious head injury, but it may also develop slowly by the cause of a brain tumor, dementia or an infection, Aphasia impairs the expression and understanding of language and it also affects reading and writing. It may occur with speech disorders as well such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which is also caused from brain damage. The causes of aphasia are damages to one or more areas of language in the brain, or sometimes brain injury

This article is about the how reliable and valid two quantitative approaches in diagnosing the severity of apraxia of speech (AOS). Diagnosis AOS is often an impressions of prior knowledge and perception of observations using Darley’s model of characteristic criteria. This study was observational and 59 participants were used through a volunteer registry. 39 were diagnosed with aphasia (16 women, 23 men) and a motor speech evaluation was given. Audio recordings of the evaluation were then shown

The purpose of this paper is to pursue one important and fundamental aim: language and the brain are purely inseparable since it allows us to perform essential tasks such as generating, comprehending and expressing speech. With damage to the brain, individuals can no longer perform such tasks which can ultimately lead to many types of language disorders. The focus of this paper is Broca’s aphasia, a language disorder characterized by the inability to produce written and spoken speech. Damage to the brain can cause many types of speech impairments as well as comprehension deficits.