Broca's Aphasia

(Damage to this area would result in, Broca’s Aphasia; the inability to use or understand written or spoken words. People who suffer from this condition may understand what they are wanting to say, but are unable to say it in clarity. Such as “bot” instead of “box”

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

Neurological injuries can manifest themselves in endless ways across a wide spectrum of physical, emotional, and developmental deficits. Within just one of these manifestations, aphasia, there is a wide range of variation based on the location and level of damage from a neurological injury. Aphasia encapsulates a spectrum of deficits. It is defined as a disorder of language acquired secondary to brain damage (ASHA). These disorders can manifest themselves as receptive, damaging to the ability to process speech, expressive, damaging to the ability to produce speech, or both. In most right-handed and some left-handed patients, aphasia results from a lesion in the left hemisphere (ASHA). I strongly believe that a comprehensive knowledge of aphasias

Another type of Aphasia is Broca’s Aphasia. Because this form of Aphasia affects the left hemisphere of the brain, there are numerous types of language issues that can occur. For instance, they could have a hard time making a complete sentence. Those who suffer from Broca’s Aphasia might also have a hard time understanding sentences along with leaving out some words when talking. Lastly, they might have a hard time following directions (“Types of

In Spring 2018, I completed the course Aphasia and Related Disorders. This course provided me with a multitude of learning opportunities pertaining to theory, prevention, clinical assessment, and rehabilitation of adults with communicative disorders, specifically those with aphasia. Having taken this course during my clinical practicum in the Neurogenic Communication and Cognition Clinic (NC3), I was able to easily make connections between what was learned in class with the clients I was working with in the clinic, thereby enhancing my clinical knowledge and confidence.

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

Juan’s will be able to complete simple sentence completion and/or phrase completion with minimal cueing with 80% accuracy. Sentence production program for Broca’s Aphasia and Conversational Scripts are two therapy activities that can be utilized to assist Juan’s speech. For the sentence production program the clinician’s goal is to improve Juan’s statements in request, questions and conversing. This intervention is utilized to improve the client’s non-fluent ability. There is type A and type B, but in this case Juan has a mild aphasia which falls under type A.

According to the NINDS, damage to a specific portion of the brain that is responsible for language is known as aphasia, which is a neurological disorder. This disorder includes difficulty in reading and writing, not able to express oneself when speaking, and trouble understanding speech (NINDS, par.1). There are three different types of aphasia, and they depend on the portion of the brain that has been affected such as: Wernicke, Broca, and Global

Broca’s Aphasia is a type of non-fluent disorder that results from damage to the frontal lobe of the human brain that is responsible for language production. The frontal lobe of the brain is known as the Broca’s area named after Paul Broca in 1864 (Bartels, 2012). Paul Broca was a French neuroanatomist who discovered the Broca’s area. Broca’s findings resulted from several consultations with a person who has Broca’s Aphasia. The person was given the name Tan as ‘tan’ was the only word he could say. After Tan died, Broca conducted an autopsy of Tan’s brain and noticed the damage to his left hemisphere of the brain, now known as the Broca’s area (Bartels, 2012).

Aphasia affects a person’s ability to communicate because of brain damage. Brain damage can affect comprehension and production (Damasio, 1992). However, a exclusively expressive language interruption, which includes both written and oral language, is known as Broca’s aphasia. The non-fluent speech a client with Broca’s aphasia experiences includes difficulties in the grammatical aspect of language, although language comprehension remains moderately intact (Vandenborre & Mariën, 2014). Due to the current limitation of therapy resources, Speech- Language Pathologists and clients are directly affected by the clinical dilemma. This makes it very difficult to provide the necessary treatment for clients with aphasia. It is believed that advances in technology designed specifically for treatment of aphasia will create opportunities to provide frequent and intensive treatment at a low cost (Palmer, 2015).It is important to remove the barriers that people with aphasia experience in order to reduce the effects of disability and a happy successful life (Hilari, 2011). According to Brandenburg et al 2013, the influence

Aphasia is a neurological disorder that has a major impact on communication; it can affect any persons at any age. Aphasia is often caused by many diseases including tumors, progressive neurological disorders, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. Cerebrovascular accidents “stroke” contributes to most cases of Aphasia. It is estimated that there is over 80,000 new cases every year due to a stroke in the United States (National Stroke Association, 2016). Cerebrovascular accidents occur when blood supply to the brain is interrupted or reduced. Once this occurs oxygen to the brain is reduced causing focal lesions. Depending on the location, these lesions will have an affect on certain language centers in the brain, including the Broca’s and Wernicke’s

Aphasia is a language disorder where certain areas of the brain are damaged, which affects one’s ability to comprehend or produce speech and language. Nearly two million Americans have some type of aphasia, with about 180,000 American’s acquiring aphasia per year (NAA). There are many ways aphasia could be acquired such as, traumatic brain injury, infections, diseases or tumors. However, it is most commonly acquired by having a hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke. These events do not always lead to aphasia, but when they do, it is because the lesions are located in certain language centers of the brain, such as Broca’s Area or Wernicke’s Area. According to Schlaug, Marchina, and Norton (2008) about 600,000 to 750,000 strokes are documented each year in the US and around 20% of those who suffer from a stroke end up with some form of aphasia.

Broca’s aphasia is a language disorder that affects the production of speech, best categorised as a non-fluent aphasia. It is also known as expressive aphasia, as someone who is affected by it understands what he or she wants to say, but are unable to express it. A sufferer would typically speak in single words, or a series of short utterances, with poor grammar. Their comprehension and perception of language used by others is not affected by this condition. Broca’s aphasia is named after the region of the brain in which the condition is believed to primarily occur, Broca’s area.

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.

83). He was unable to read big numbers. He could recognize, even understand isolated words, but when they come together in a sentence, Johnson would have difficulty dealing. His impaired short term memory could not hold the thought of a sentence long enough for him to achieve understanding. He acknowledged not being aphasic but did experience stuttering, voice tremors, and slurred his words (Johnson, 1990, pp. 18, 50, 112, 120). He said, he saw the words he wanted to say, but had difficulty bringing out those words verbally. It is inevitable for speech-language pathologists to work with stroke patients because the condition causes damages to any part of the brain or brain stem and it is these damages that lead to neurogenic communication disorders, as well as cognitive deficits (Manasco, 2014, p. 68). We recall that neurogenic communication disorders are communication difficulties or disturbances that are brought about by damaged in the brain and other parts of the nervous system (Manasco, 2014, p. 3). This range of disorders includes aphasia, dysarthria, and apraxia of speech, right hemisphere disorders, dementia, and many other accompanying deficits that negatively affect the patient's ability to