Complete recovery in adults after a severe injury is much less common, and severe aphasia may persist unchanged for the duration of the person's life. Many patients are aided by remedial language training, while others continue severely impaired.SeeMemory ...
withwords,whetherinspeakingorwriting,canprofoundlyaffectthepersonalityandbehaviorof apatient.Althoughaphasicpersonsusuallyrequireextensivetreatmentbyspeciallytrainedspeechpatholigistsortherapists,allpersonsconcernedwiththecareofthepatientshouldpracticetechniquesthatwillhelpminimizefrustrationandimprovecommunicationwithsuchpatients...
dementiacommunication disorderslinguistic testOnce the victim of comparative neglect, the study of language in patients with dementia is beginning to flourish. It is important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Language dysfunction can be prominent in patients with dementia and indeed may be ...
ABBR: PPA A form of dementia marked by the inability to recall the names of things, to read, or to express oneself with speech The disorder gradually worsens and may ultimately produce other cognitive deficits. Early in the course of the disease, other brain functions of daily living are pre...
Related to semantic aphasia:Semantic dementia inability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain Not to be confused with: aphagia– difficulty or pain in swallowing Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Ma...
In general, as the condition progresses, both grammatical classes come are affected. It should be noted that patients with progressive aphasia may develop cognitive impairments outside the language realm. In those circumstances the aphasia becomes part of a dementia syndrome. View chapterExplore book ...
Speech therapy can help aphasia patients communicate. Other options can include outpatient treatments, group therapy, psychotherapy and rehabilitation. Treating the underlying cause of the patient's aphasia, like surgical removal of tumors or radiation to shrink them, management of dementia and anti-epil...
Finally, regions in the nondominant hemisphere may become more active over the course of recovery. Aphasia that has a gradual and slowly progressive onset occurs in the degenerative dementia syndromes of progressive aphasia and semantic dementia (Chapter 409). Treatment Speech therapy may be ...
Patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal dementia frequently manifest language deficits. The prevalence of Alzheimer disease in the United States is approximately 5 million cases. References Mortality/Morbidity Aphasia is a condition, not a disease; therefore, it...
Speech and language assessment in 30 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type and in 70 normal controls revealed that all Alzheimer patients were aphasic. Throughout most of the course, the language disorder resembled transcortical sensory aphasia, and increasing language impairment correlated with...