nces of less than four words. Vocabulary access is limited, and forming of sound is often difficult and clumsy. The patient may understand speech reasonably well and may be able to read, but is limited in their writing abilities. Mixed non-fluent Aphasia: This term is applied to patients with an illness similar to sever Broca's Aphasia. Unlike Broca's Aphasia, tough, patients with mixed non-fluent Aphasia are limited in their understanding of speech and cannot read or write much beyond an elementary level. It can also be known as damage to the frontal lobe of the brain. Wernicke's Aphasia: The patient has lost the ability to understand the meaning of spoken words, while the ability to produce understandable, connected speech has not been much affected. Their speech, though, is not really normal, as sentences do not hang together and unrelated words infringe. Writing and reading are often severely impaired. It can also be known as damage to the temporal lobe of the brain.Sensory Aphasia: The loss of the meaning of symbols, leaving the patient to hear but not understand words. Anomic Aphasia: Patients with this have an inability to supply words for the very things they are trying to talk about. As a result their speech is full of vague expressions and frustration.Transient Aphasia: This is the name for temporary aphasia, which lasts for only a few hours or days. Characteristics of patients with AphasiaWhen a person with Aphasia speaks the smaller words are often left out, reducing the sentence to "Key" words, like a message from a telegraph. Some times sounds are mixed up, like calling a "bank teller" a "tank beller," and some times words are mixed up, like calling a table a chair. People with Aphasia often need more time than a normal person would to understand what is being said to them. They often do not immediately know the meaning of the words they are hearing, kind of like listening to somebody speaking in a foreign language. Many...
