Communication Deficits in Stroke Survivors: An Overview of Classification and Treatment

Aphasia Aphasia typically results from acquired left hemisphere brain damage and is the impaired ability to comprehend and formulate language. It is a multimodality disorder that includes disrupted auditory comprehension, reading, oral-expressive language, and writing, and these disruptions cannot be explained by dementia, sensory loss, or motor dysfunction. Someclassify aphasia into different types, fluent and nonfluent, or a more extensive taxonomy—global, Broca's, transcortical motor, Wernicke's, conduction, transcortical sensory, and anomic. Others eschew classification and suggest that differences among patients result from differences in severity or the presence of coexisting disorders.

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