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Language disorders

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Name(s):

Impairments in language

Aphasia

Nature

Aphasia is a general term for all disturbances of language due to brain lesions but not a result of faulty innervation of the speech muscles, involvement of the organs of articulation, or general mental or intellectual deficiency. Language, here, refers to the expression or communication of thought by word, writing, gesture, to the reception and interpretation of such acts when carried out by others, and to the retention, recall and visualization of the symbols involved.

Broader

Mental disorders

Learning disorders

Symptoms of nervous system diseases

Narrower

Perceptual category memory deficits

Developmental receptive language disorder

Developmental expressive language disorder

Aggravated by

Mental fatigue

Organization(s)

International Association for Melody-Programmed Therapy of Speech

Value(s)

Disorder

Reference(s)

Code, Chris: Characteristics of Aphasia

Sarno, Martha Taylor and Höök, Olle: Aphasia: assessment and treatment

Benson, D Frank: Aphasia, Alexia and Agraphia

Peterson, H and Marquardt, J: Appraisal and Diagnosis of Speech and Language Disorders

Luria, A R: Traumatic Aphasia: its syndromes, psychology and treatment

Tibbits, Donald F: Language Disorders in Adolescents

Cantwell, Dennis and Baker, Lorian: Developmental Speech and Language Disorders

Type

(E) Emanations of other problems

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