What is Aphasia?
Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage to the part of the brain that controls our speech. Stroke is the most common cause of aphasia, followed by head injury, brain surgery, or it may happen slowly because of a brain tumour or a neurological disease.
What are the types of aphasia?
It is divided into two broad categories, namely, fluent and nonfluent. The most common type of fluent aphasia is Wernicke’s aphasia which results due to damage in the temporal lobe of the brain. Their patients can construct long sentences and words, but they don’t add any meaning to their speech. For example, a person with Wernicke’s aphasia may say something like: ‘That pink over there you know smitehnor and coslupted with all the loss.’
The most common type of nonfluent aphasia is Broca’s aphasia which results from damage to the front lobe of the brain. People with Broca’s aphasia often understand speech but fail to produce it. They frequently omit certain words from their sentences. For instance, they might say a sentence like ‘we go park’ meaning ‘We go to the park’ or ‘I icecream want give Sheena’ meaning ‘I want to give icecream to Sheena’
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