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Aphasia

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“Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder caused by brain damage, characterized by impairments of language modalities; speaking, listening, reading and writing; it is not the result of a sensory or motor deficit, a general intellectual deficit, confusion or a psychiatric disorder” (Hallowell & Chapey, 2008, p. 3). Aphasia is typically acquired suddenly as a result of a stroke and can also appear following traumatic brain injury or other neurological events such as tumor or disease. When aphasia develops slowly over time and is the only behavioral symptom present, the diagnosis is typically primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Aphasia is often classified according to the appearance of a constellation of behavioral symptoms such as impairment in auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, naming, production of grammatically correct sentences, repetition, writing, and presence of paraphasic (substitution) sound or word errors (e.g., saying table for chair...

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  1. Department of Communicartive Sciences and Disorders, California State University East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., 94542, Hayward, CA, USA

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

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Patterson, J. (2011). Aphasia. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_858

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