Language Dysfunction Research Paper

Language is the single most factor responsible for the progress of mankind. Without language I can visualize ourselves still roaming around like nomads gesturing with our hands, sounds and body to communicate. Our Brain is the most complex organ in which many parts of the brain are linked with language to communicate and convey. The sphere of Intelligence is across a person’s ability in linguistic, logical and math’s, visual, musical, bodily, inter and intra personnel ability.We hear many auditory sounds at the same time. All pass through the neurons and axons where these are processed and we respond only to those which make meaningful understanding to us through language. When a child blabbers we respond happily as if it’s a known language but growing up we term it as language deficient, possibly caused by damage to brain or inborn defect.

In Medical terminology Aphasia is the term used to describe ones inability to produce speech or understand speech due to brain damage or ability to use language. Common cause attributed is due to Brain Stroke, Head injuries or the very formation of our Brain structure at birth. Such incidences damage the Brain and our actions originating from the affected area undergoes drastic changes.

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wernickles patient showed damages to the left hemisphere behind the temporal lobe for the language dysfunction. Though both the damages resulted in language dysfunction yet they are distinct in terms of the type of dysfunction they resulted in. For it goes to prove that language related functions are located in several parts of the brain and damages to them could cause varying dysfunctions. Besides there are other types of aphasia called Global aphasia which is damage to both the front and back lobes and agrammatic aphasia, language without function words and damage which results in dysfunction of