Aphasias

Background and introduction Daniel Jackson was admitted into hospital for a right sided cerebrovascular accident. The impact of this has caused Mr Jackson to develop expressive dysphasia/aphasia, where he is able to understand what is being communicated to him but unable to respond verbally or in writing (Labreche et al. 2016). Mr Jackson is to be discharged to his mother’s house with a package of supportive care since she refused to have him at home unless he has a Percutaneous endoscopic…

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder caused by damage in one or more parts of the brain, resulting in deficits in expressive and receptive language and can affect other language-based skills. Damage to the brain that results in aphasia can be caused by several events or neurological conditions, but the most common cause of aphasia is a cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke. People of all ages can acquire aphasia, but the most common sufferers are middle-aged to elderly individuals who have…

cases of Luke and Beth, two individuals who both were diagnosed with aphasia, whose cases and lives are extremely different. After introducing the reader to Luke and Beth, Ogden briefly describes aphasia and the most common types. She mentions the popular trend to not classify aphasia, but rather to describe the symptoms being exhibited. Broca’s aphasia is then described; this is most frequently associated with expressive aphasia and is characterized by the nonfluency of speech, language…

Summary The broader issue presented in this paper is to determine if there is “a principled way to understand the nature of rehabilitation in bilingual aphasia such that patterns of acquisition and generalization are predictable and logical” (p. S299). This study is attempting to provide further knowledge of the manner in which people with bilingual aphasia reacquire and develop their language skills in order to help construct some patterns that “are predictable and logical” (p. S298). This is…

Carl’s Aphasia Stroke. A six-letter word that can change a person’s life in an instant and possibly forever. Carl McIntyre had several occupations: husband, father, and star actor; however, his main occupation, now, is being a patient in recovery. He suffered from a stroke causing left-hemispheric damage to his brain. After being admitted into the hospital, he awoke with concerned family members nearby trying to talk to him. Carl could no longer talk, read, or write which is indication of…

Symposium was very beneficial to my future career as a Speech Language Pathologist. The information retained from the symposium allowed me to connect that knowledge to current courses in my undergraduate major. For example, Dr. Ellis presentation on Aphasia Prognosis, Recovery Patterns and Outcomes correlated with the information that I am currently learning in Neuroscience course. Additionally, Dr. Clark presentation about Child Apraxia of Speech: Severity Matters, was very interesting because…

multiple types of strokes (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). The type of stoke we see in the film is a hemorrhage, and it is bleeding in the brain (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). Hemorrhages are usually due to a ruptured aneurysm (Gilliam & Marquardt, 2016). Aphasia is classified as an acquired neurogenic language disorder…

study, they explored silent reading comprehension in individuals with Aphasia. Word frequency, word class, and word length were the three variables that were investigated in order to examine how these variables contribute to time course of silent reading in individuals with aphasia. DeDe previously conducted similar studies regarding reading comprehension in individuals with Aphasia. In 2012, DeDe found that individuals with Aphasia showed longer reading time and listening time for low frequency…

Aphasia impairs a person’s ability to hear, speak, read, and write. Those diagnosed with aphasia may also experience swallowing problems, dysarthria (difficulty to articulate speech), or apraxia (inability to perform actions needed to produce speech based on brain damage). The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but any damage done to the left hemisphere including brain tumors, traumatic brain injury…

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, is a major method of treatment for aphasia. This treatment allows the individual with aphasia to be a conversation partner and engage in communication that may have been limited before treatment. It is crucial with aphasia to begin fostering communication through AAC very early on in the treatment process. These AAC devices can include low-technology device or high-technology devices (Fried-Oken, Beukelman, & Hux, 2011). One type of AAC…