What is Conduction Aphasia?
Conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is an uncommon form of difficulty in speaking. It is caused by damage to the parietal lobe of the brain. Affected people can fully understand…
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What is Transcortical Sensory Aphasia?
Transcortical sensory aphasia involves damage to specific areas of the brain's temporal lobe, resulting in symptoms such as poor auditory comprehension, relatively intact repetition, and fluent speech. TSA is a…
What is Transcortical Motor Aphasia?
Transcortical Motor Aphasia, also known as commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia, results from damage to the language-dominant hemisphere in the anterior superior frontal lobe. Transcortical Motor Aphasia is classified…
Symptoms of Aphasia
Symptoms of aphasia
What is Broca’s Aphasia?
Broca's aphasia is a nonfluent and expressive aphasia where the person knows what they want to say and can understand others. But, speech takes great effort to say words or…
What is Anomic Aphasia?
Anomic aphasia is a mild form of fluent aphasia where the person can understand other's speech and can usually read. People with anomic aphasia can't find the words they want…
What is Alexia?
Alexia is a form of Aphasia that affects reading comprehension, including: 1. Having difficulty recognizing words by sight or understanding written material of any length. 2. Having difficulty sounding out…
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Primary Progressive Aphasia is a type of frontotemporal dementia that affects communication ability. People with Primary Progressive Aphasia may have trouble expressing their thoughts and understanding or finding words. The…
What is Global Aphasia?
Global Aphasia is a form of non-fluent Aphasia. Individuals with global Aphasia have severe communication difficulties. They may be extremely limited in their ability to speak or comprehend language. They…
What is Wernicke’s Aphasia?
Wernicke’s Aphasia is the most common form of fluent Aphasia. People with Wernicke’s Aphasia may speak in long complete sentences without meaning, adding unnecessary words and creating made-up words. For…
What is Non-fluent Aphasia?
Non-fluent Aphasia is a form of Aphasia where a person's speech is difficult or halting, and some words may be missing. However, a listener can still understand what the speaker…
What is Fluent Aphasia?
Fluent Aphasia is a form of Aphasia where a person's speech flows easily into long, complex sentences. Still, the content of the message is meaningless. it is also referred to…
What is Aphasia?
Aphasia is a loss of language due to injury to the brain. Stroke is the most common cause of Aphasia in adults. However, Aphasia may result from a traumatic brain injury, tumor, disease, or neurological condition.
