Lucy exhibited both strengths and weaknesses in expressive language. Lucy’s strengths consisted of providing appropriate responses during social greetings, syntactically and grammatically correct sentence formations, and suitable responses to personal questions. Difficulties were exhibited with using precise wording when describing scenarios. Lucy typically utilized interjections (e.g., um, yeah), vague words (e.g., that), and circumlocutions (i.e., she attempts to describe a word that she is having difficulty retrieving). Lucy exhibited anomia where she seemed to know what she wanted to say but was unable to produce the word or words; Lucy’s anomia was decreased when provided with verbal semantic cues presented by the clinician.
