| Question | Answer |
| Verbal expression for Global Aphasia | Severe verbal expression and speech production
Speech characterized by stereotypical utterances and automatics |
| Written expression for Global Aphasia | Minimum to no communication |
| Verbal expression for Broca's Aphasia | Decreased length of utterances (WPM reduced)
Predominance of nouns and verbs
Reduced prosody
Halting, agrammatic/telegraphic
Naming/word finding deficits |
| Written expression for Broca's Aphasia | Mirrors verbal expression
Predominance of content words
Omission of function words
Need to consider motor impairment (gross and fine) and pt writing with non-dominant hand. |
| Verbal expression for Transcortical Motor Aphasia | Frontal lesion causes reduced initiation in speech and motoric responses
Intact ability to repeat |
| Verbal expression for Transcortical Sensory Aphasia | Echolalic
Similar to Wernicke's with the exception of repetition and press for speech |
| Verbal expression for Wernicke's Aphasia | Effortless, prosodic (WPM WNL).
Halting and pauses are due to anomia.
Pressed for speech (poor self monitoring)
Paraphasic errors: semantic and phonemic
Neologisms/jargon
Circumlocution due to naming/word finding deficits
Vague, empty |
| Written expression for Wernicke's Aphasia | Mirrors verbal expression
Fluent, effortless output
Paraphasias, neologisms, paragrammatic
Meaningless, empty content |
| Verbal expression for Conduction Aphasia | Fluent output
Contains paraphasias
Anomia/word finding deficits |
| Written expression for Conduction Aphasia | Fluent output
Mirrors verbal skills
Anomia/word finding deficits |
| Verbal expression for Anomic Aphasia | Fluent output
Anomia/word finding deficits
Circumlocution
May appear halting or non fluent due to anomia. |
| Written expression for Anomic Aphasia | Similar to verbal expression
Word finding errors |
