Music therapy for non-fluent aphasia is a method for treating patients who have lost the ability to speak after a stroke or accident. Non-fluent aphasia...
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with therapy than with just therapy alone. Furthermore, its use seems to be restricted to non-fluent aphasia. Donepezil has shown a potential for helping...
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spoken word. Good candidates for this therapy include people who have had left hemisphere strokes, non-fluent aphasias such as Broca's, good auditory...
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effect of non-fluent aphasia. In hopes of making MIT more effective, researchers are continually studying the mechanisms of MIT and non-fluent aphasia. There...
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In neurology, conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is an uncommon form of difficulty in speaking (aphasia). It is caused by damage to the...
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Wernicke's area (section Aphasia)
fluent aphasia. This means that the person with aphasia will be able to fluently connect words, but the phrases will lack meaning. This is unlike non-fluent...
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Auditory verbal agnosia (section Sign language therapy)
repeat words. This marks a difference from other aphasias, including Wernike aphasia, because he had fluent speech and was able to understand written language...
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Semantic dementia (category Aphasias)
progressive aphasia (svPPA), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of semantic memory in both the verbal and non-verbal domains...
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impaired word comprehension. However, speech remains fluent and grammatical. Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) is characterized by progressive difficulties...
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Dyslexia (redirect from Alexia (aphasia))
heterogeneous, dimensional learning disorder that impairs accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Typical—but not universal—features include difficulties...
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Dementia (redirect from Risk factors for dementia)
answer that question. The other type is called non-fluent agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (NFA-PPA). This is mainly a problem with producing...
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History of autism (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
condition aphasia voluntaria - when people choose not to speak. Some people considered to have aphasia voluntaria may have been autistic and non-verbal....
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phonics training is effective for improving literacy-related skills, particularly the fluent reading of words and non-words, and the accurate reading...
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is so extensive[clarification needed] that damage to them can result in aphasia. Kelly et al. (2015: 286) comment that “There is a dawning realization...
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any and all psycholinguistic descriptions of aphasia, the only language related brain damage. Even in aphasia, language is not the cause, although the loss...
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cerebral lesion. Patients whose symptoms include both motor deficits and aphasias often have larger lesions with an associated poorer prognosis in regard...
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