APHASIA

Aphasia

Aphasia

Aphasia may be defined as a total or partial loss of the use or understanding of language, the receptive and expressive organs of speech remaining intact. Since speech is an intellectual function, dependent upon the physiological activity of the underlying neural arrangements, the component units of which have an anatomical localization, the problem of aphasia may be considered from the psychol...

Exploring Aphasia in Kalhori

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, h...

Aphasia overview

Aphasia is an “acquired disorder of previously intact language ability secondary to brain disease.” 1 Aphasia may affect the production of, or comprehension of, speech, as well as the ability to read or write. According to current accepted estimates, one million people in the United States and an additional one million in the rest of the world have aphasia. Most of these people have acquired ap...

Aphasia Handbook