Title: Back to the Basics: Aphasia<br/>Author: WanTsu Wendy Chang<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/1322/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><div>
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        <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Back to the Basics: Aphasia</strong></span></div>
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                        <span style="font-size:16px;">Aphasia is an impairment of <i>language</i></span></li>
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                        <span style="font-size:16px;">3 important assessments in an aphasic patient are <b>fluency</b>, <b>comprehension</b>, and <b>repetition</b> (see attached figure)</span></li>
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                        <span style="font-size:16px;">Patients with <u>fluent speech</u> are able to generate speech spontaneously, though the content of their speech may have errors</span></li>
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                        <span style="font-size:16px;">Patients with <u>non-fluent speech</u> have difficulty initiating speech</span></li>
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                        <span style="font-size:16px;">Patients who have <u>fluent speech but are unable to repeat</u> have a problem with comprehension or a disconnect between the sensory and motor components of language</span>
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                                        <span style="font-size:16px;">In Wernicke’s aphasia, patients <i>cannot </i>comprehend what they read and hear </span></li>
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                                        <span style="font-size:16px;">In conduction aphasia, patients <i>can</i> comprehend what they read and hear</span></li>
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        Types of aphasia [Online image]. Retrieved February 8, 2017 from <a href="https://www.aphasia.org/aphasia-definitions/">https://www.aphasia.org/</a></p>
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