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SLP 307
Behavioral Symptoms
Symptom | Definition | When skill impaired? |
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fluency | forward flow of speech, phrasing, intonation, rate | short, choppy phrases slow, labored production of speech grammatical errors telegraphic quality |
motor output | concurrent motor speech disorder due to injury in brain area(s) controlling motor planning and programming | slow, labored articulation of sounds “articulatory groping” |
comprehension | understanding spoken language | inability to interpret what is heard |
repetition | accurate reproduction of verbal stimuli on demand | major way differentiating aphasia type |
naming | word retrieval | anomia paraphasias |
reading and writing | comprehension and expression of written language | these deficits parallel verbal language deficits |