Aphasia Types
This type of aphasia is classified by reduced fluency, word finding difficulties, and effortful speech.
Broca's aphasia
This refers to the smooth, continuous, and effortless production of speech.
Fluency
This lobe is responsible for reasoning, decision making, memory, and personality.
Frontal lobe
This type of aphasia is characterized by good fluency but reduced comprehension. Sentences may not make sense or use correct words.
Wernicke's aphasia
This is when someone is having difficulty finding words and recalling names of everyday objects.
Anomia
This lobe is used for processing sensory input, understanding language, recognizing objects and faces, and regulating emotions.
Temporal lobe
This aphasia type is characterized by a neurological syndrome where someone loses the ability to use language slowly and progressively. It is caused by a neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Indirect or roundabout language used to describe a word or concept.
Circumlocution
This lobe is for processing sensory information, spatial awareness, and integrating inputs from environments.
Parietal lobe
This type of aphasia is classified by difficulty finding the right words. Speech is often vague and they talk around the words.
Anomic aphasia
A non-word substitute for the word attempting to be said; the word may be known or unknown.
Neologism
This lobe is for visual processing and making sense of visual information from the eyes.
Occipital lobe
This type of aphasia is characterized by multiple injuries to different parts of the brain, they produce few words, and they have difficulty understanding spoken language.
Global aphasia
A substitution, insertion, or transposition of letters in a word. Ex: tar for car.
Phonemic paraphasia
What lobe houses the speech production center
Frontal lobe