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Result from neurological disorders such as stroke, brain injury, and degenerative diseases:
Aphasia:
a language disorder which results from brain damage (most commonly a stroke which affects the language dominant hemisphere of the brain); the disorder can involve speaking, listening, reading and writing, e.g.,
- Broca’s aphasia: difficulty finding words, minimal verbal output, and right-sided weakness
- Wernicke’s aphasia: fluent, easy verbal production which may not make sense, and difficulty understanding the spoken word; reading and writing may be impaired
- Global aphasia: typically the most severe aphasia: affecting all areas of communication
Cognitive-linguistic deficits from brain injury related to any etiology, including problems with:
- Auditory comprehension
- Verbal expression
- Orientation and memory
- Attention, including:
- Focused attention: ability to focus on something (can be brief)
- Sustained attention: ability to hold attention for a period of time
- Selective attention: ability to attend to one thing, while being able to ignore external or internal distractions (audio, visual, kinesthetic, etc.)
- Alternating attention: ability to switch attention from a subject, and then returning attention to the same subject , and
- Divided attention: ability to attend to several things at one time (e.g., driving)
Executive function skills:
- High level cognitive skills used to control other abilities and behaviors:
- Planning, timing, ability to self-monitor
- Organization
- Sequencing
- Problem solving
- Abstract reasoning
- Mental flexibility
- Insight and judgement