Chapter 7: Adult Language Disorders and Cognitive-Based Dysfunction
by Carlee Willey

1. Conduction Aphasia
1.1. results from injury to the temporal-parietal area of the brain
1.2. fluency and motor output
1.3. Language Comprehension
1.4. Repetition
1.5. Naming
1.6. Reading and Writing
2. Wernicke's Aphasia
2.1. Language Comprehension
2.2. Fluency and Motor Output
2.3. Repetition
2.4. Naming
2.5. Reading and Writing
3. Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
3.1. classical symptoms of Wernicke's except with stellar repetition skills
4. Global Aphasia
4.1. deficits across all language modalities
5. Transcortical Motor Aphasia
5.1. slow and labored output on their own but perform reasonably on repetitive tasks
6. Broca's Aphasia
6.1. nonfluent, expressive, motor aphasia profile
6.2. Fluency and Motor Output
6.3. Language Comprehension
6.4. Repetition
6.5. Naming
6.6. Reading and Writing
7. What is Aphasia?
7.1. - a language disorder that is acquired sometime after an individual has developed language competence
7.2. - results from injury to the language functions of the brain
7.3. - literally means "absence of language" or "without language"
7.4. - disturbance in the language system after language has been established or learned; results from neurological injury to the language-dominant hemisphere of the brain; includes disturbances of receptive or expressive abilities for spoken and written language
8. Defining Characteristics of Aphasia Syndromes
8.1. Anomic Aphasia
8.1.1. not identified with specific area of brain or site of a lesion