Dysphasia

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Dysphasia

• Dysphasia is a disorder of language that can
  occur as a result of stroke
• It can range from mild to severe.
• It can affect
• Speech
• Understanding speech
• Reading
• Writing

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Fluent Dysphasia

• Normal speed and intonation
• Nonsense words/jargon
• Poor self-monitoring and awareness of errors
• Understanding often poor

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Cookie Theft Picture
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Example of fluent speech

• (Based on description of cookie theft picture.)
• Well this is.mother is away here working her
  work out ohere to get her better, but when shes
  looking, the two boys looking in the other part.

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Non-fluent dysphasia

• Slow and hesitant
• Articulation errors
• mostly uses nouns
• Understanding is usually intact

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Example of non-fluent speech

• (Based on a description of the cookie theft
  picture)
• Cookie jarfall over.chairwaterempty

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Fluent/non-fluent dysphasia

• In reality, it is not always that clear cut.
  People do not always fall neatly into one type of
  dysphasia.
• People can change from one to the other in the
  early days after a stroke.
• Sometimes people have some of the symptoms of one
  type and some of the other
• eg. good comprehension but jargon words.

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Swearing

• People often swear when they have dysphasia.
• This is because there is a lack of control in the
  brain over what is said.
• Dont be offended! They cant help it.

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Singing and automatic speech

• People with dysphasia can often sing songs or
  recite days of week or other learned utterances.
• These are stored in the persons memory in a
  different part of the brain than the language
  centre for making up sentences.