on the receiver of the message. Yet an impediment of phonation that prevents speech production has nothing to do with formulation of verbal messages (people can still write what they cannot say), nor does the loss of one's hands interfere with language formulation (people may still say it ...
Aphasia is a term used to describe any deficit in the production or comprehension of speech. Damage to various parts of the brain can give rise to aphasia. The communication problems experienced by patients with aphasia present a unique challenge to the nurse. It is vital that all patients rec...
We compare his language ability on the Bilingual Aphasia Test with norms for New Zealand English speakers and the original BAT norms. There is a large and growing population of Chinese in New Zealand. The impact of communication disorders in this group has been minimally investigated in the ...
giving rise to the linguistic subfield 'Clinical Linguistics". In Tunisia, the name of the field still not denotes what it really should. Within this frame is held the present paper entitled ''On the Contribution of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory (SFL) to the study of Neurological Conditi...
degree of recovery may depend on the plasticity of the residual tissue, which can be understood as a functional measure of brain health. However, the neurobiological characteristics of the residual tissue that drive recovery, and thus severity in chronic stages of aphasia remain unclear....
Actor Bruce Willis appears at the premiere of “Glass” in New York on Jan. 15, 2019. Wills is stepping away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, a condition that causes the loss of the ability to understand or express speech, his family announced Wednesday. In a statement posted...
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These capabilities in turn appear to be dependent on the IPL and the evolution of left hemispheric control over fine motor functioning. The parietal lobe is considered a "lobe of the hand." The association between handedness, language and motor functioning has in fact, been noted by numerous...
the demonstration that a test is a valid “predictor” of whether the patient is aphasic is the most popular, but of limited value in several ways. The demonstration of validity relies entirely on the fact that the aphasic patient’s performance can be discriminated from that of normal subjec...
On the Nature of Speech Errors in Aphasia: Acoustic Analysis of the Speech Output of 8 Native Speakers of Spanish with Aphasia Anna Marczyk, Lorraine Baqué, Alba Rosas, Jean-Luc Nespoulous Pages 84-85 View PDF select article Refractory Phonological Access Deficits Research articleOpen access Refr...