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Fluent, or receptive, aphasia is when an individual has difficulty understanding the meaning of communication but is still able to produce connected speech. However, though their speech has regular intonation and grammar, they may insert irrelevant or made-up words. In this form of aphasia, Wernicke's area is affected.
Non-Fluent, or Broca's aphasia, is when an individual can comprehend language but has difficulty expressing themselves. Finding the right words to use takes concentration and may cause frustration. When they do speak, their sentences are short and simple.
Global aphasia occurs when both Broca's and Wernicke's areas are damaged. This is the most severe type of aphasia. People with this type of aphasia can neither read, nor write. They are unable to produce more than a few recognizable words, and their comprehension of language is extremely limited.
Questions for further discussion...
Why do you think that melodic intonation therapy (try to answer the question before clicking on the link!) would help someone with aphasia? How does singing differ from speech?
We've come a long way in medical science since the humour theory. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight their medical procedures seem absolutely barbaric, but they truly believed they were right. In the future, do you think they will look back to our time and think the same thing? If so, then do you think this will be true of other aspects of our day to day lives? If not, then what makes us different from the physicians of the past?
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