30. juni

Todays word is aphasia

Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that
impairs a person's ability to process language,
but does not affect intelligence.
Aphasia impairs the ability to speak and understand others, and
most people with aphasia experience difficulty reading and writing.

The most common cause of aphasia is stroke (about 25-40% of stroke survivors acquire aphasia). It can also result from head injury, brain tumor or other neurological causes.

Yes, but many people with aphasia also have weakness or paralysis of their right leg and right arm. When a person acquires aphasia it is usually due to damage on the left side of the brain, which controls movements on the right side of the body.

Any of the following may be considered symptoms of aphasia:

* inability to comprehend language

* inability to pronounce, not due to muscle paralysis or weakness

* inability to speak spontaneously

* inability to form words

* inability to name objects

* poor enunciation

* excessive creation and use of personal neologisms

* inability to repeat a phrase

* persistent repetition of phrases

* paraphasia (substituting letters, syllables or words)

* agrammatism (inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion)

* dysprosody (alterations in inflexion, stress, and rhythm)

* incompleted sentences

* inability to read

* inability to write