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How is expressive aphasia characterized?
The medical condition expressive aphasia is characterized by an inability to produce language in verbal or written forms. The most common cause of expressive aphasia is a stroke.
What is expressive aphasia?
Expressive aphasia is a neurogenic communicative disorder characterized by the inability to speak or verbally communicate. This disorder is typically associated with damage in Broca's area in the frontal lobe of the brain.
What is the difference between receptive and expressive aphasia?
Receptive: Can't understand speech. Expressive: Can't produce speech (can't speak)
How does aphasia affect speech?
Persons with aphasia have trouble with expressive language, what is said, or receptive language, what is understood. Not only are speech and understanding speech affected, but also reading and writing is affected. The severity of aphasia varies.
What is the disability that affects a students ability to communicate verbally and non-verbally with others?
expressive aphasia
Do people with aphasia use sign language?
Some people with expressive aphasia, use sign language successfully. Others with aphasia lack the cognitive capacity to make use of sign language. That said, strictly speaking, aphasia is a communications disorder. Most patients have not lost cognitive ability, unless the aphasia was attended by another brain injury that resulted in it.
Damage to Broca's area and Wernicke's area of the brain can cause?
Damage to Broca's area causes an expressive aphasia, whereas damage to Wernicke's area causes a receptive (although illogcally sounding fluent) aphasia.
Does a person with a left side brain stroke understand you?
Though there is often an expressive aphasia (inability to speak, meaningfully), comprehension may be preserved. However, it the stroke victim is left with a receptive aphasia, there can occur the inability to comprehend.
Can expressive aphasia be caused by anything other than a stroke?
Yes, expressive aphaisa can be caused by different types of neurological disorders e.g. Traumatic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, although it is most commonly seen following stroke.
What are the pain assessment scale use for patients with expressive and receptive aphasia?
A numeric scale is appropriate because the patient/client can indicate, by pointing or raising fingers, to indicate his/her current pain level. Clients with motor aphasia cannot express themselves verbally or in writing.
You tapered from 300mg to 200mg to 100mg etc from topamax you have been wo for two days your head hurts your legs hurt and you can't speak right How long will this last will it get worse before better?
That's not the most important thing you need to worry about. You should call your physician (preferably a neurologist in this case) immediately if you are having symptoms of expressive aphasia or other speech disorders upon changing dosage or going off Topamax.
When was Aphasia - instrumental - created?
Aphasia - instrumental - was created in 1983.
