2. APHASIA
Broca’s aphasia
Characteristics:
¡ Speech output is severely / dramatically reduced to short utterances of a few words.
¡ Consists of lexical morphemes (nouns, verbs)
¡ Lack of syntax and diminished morphology (agrammatic)
¡ Distorted and slow articulation
¡ May understand speech relatively well and be able to read, but be limited in writing.
I eggs and eat and drink coffee breakfast
Ah ... Monday ... ah, Dad and Paul Haney [himself] and Dad ... hospital. Two ... ah, doctors ... and ah ... thirty minutes ... and yes ... ah ... hospital. And, er, Wednesday ... nine o'clock. And er Thursday, ten o'clock ... doctors. Two doctors ... and ah ... teeth. Yeah, ... fine.
M.E. Cinderella ... poor ... um 'dopted her ... scrubbed floor, um, tidy ... poor, um ... 'dopted ... Si-sisters and mother ... ball. Ball, prince um, shoe ...
Examiner. Keep going.
M.E. Scrubbed and uh washed and un...tidy, uh, sisters and mother, prince, no, prince, yes. Cinderella hooked prince. (Laughs.) Um, um, shoes, um, twelve o'clock ball, finished.
Wernicke’s aphasia
Characteristics
¡ Inability to grasp the meaning of spoken words
¡ Easy production of connected speech
¡ Normally-intoned stream of grammatical markers, pronouns, prepositions, articles, and auxiliaries
¡ Difficulty in finding correct content words, especially nouns (anomia)
¡ Reading and writing are often severely impaired
Examiner. What kind of work have you done?
-- We, the kids, all of us, and I, we were working for a long time in the... You know... it's the kind of space, I mean place rear to the spedawn...
Examiner. Excuse me, but I wanted to know what kind of work you have been doing.
-- If you had said that, we had said that, poomer, near the fortunate, porpunate, tamppoo, all around the fourth of martz. Oh, I get all confused.