Naming an object you can see
Confrontation Naming
Naming an object in response to "wh-" questions
Response naming
Talking around a word.
Circumlocutions
Naming items to a given category
Controlled Association Naming
The ability to read and understand written material.
Reading Comprehension
Speech error where the intended word is substituted by another word, sound, or nonsense words.
Paraphasic errors
The smooth and effortless flow of speech by which sounds, syllables, words, and phrases are produced.
Fluency
Involuntary and persistent repetition of and/or focus on a given thought or phrase.
Perseveration
Substituting a real word for the target word.
Verbal (or semantic) paraphasic error
Broca's Aphasia is a type of this aphasia
Non-Fluent aphasia
Substituting error sounds for the target sounds is this type of paraphasic error.
Literal (phonemic) paraphasic errors
The ability to communicate needs, thoughts, and ideas through writing.
Written expression
Wernicke's aphasia is a type of this aphasia.
Substituting meaningless words for the target word.
Neologistic (non-word) paraphasic errors
The ability to understand words, phrases, statements, and information that they hear in conversations.
Auditory comprehension
Neurological impairment that causes vision loss in the same side of both eyes.
Homonymous Hemianopsia
A motor speech disorder that involves difficulty planning and sequencing sounds for words and speech production.
Apraxia
The ability to verbally express ones thoughts to communicate needs.
Oral expression
Repetition of another person's words or phrases.
Echolalia
Difficulty thinking or words and naming objects.
Anomia
A person who could not recognize the sound of a dog barking would have this.
Auditory Agnosia
"The rebote is in the couch" is what kind of paraphasia?
Literal (or phonemic) paraphasia
Determining this reflects the neuroanatomy causing the affliction and gives you a prognosis for improvement and a starting point for treatment.
Differential diagnosis.
A neurological sensory processing deficit where individuals struggle to recognize familiar objects, faces, or sounds.
Agnosia
A person who could not recognize a pen by looking at it would have this.
Visual agnosia.