Collabtopic: Adult language disorders prepared by A.vanaja .
WHAT IS LANGUAGE DISORDER:
Language disorder is part of a cluster of diagnoses called communication disorders in which a person finds difficulty in understanding and expressing. A person with language impairment has difficulty in comprehension and/or use of spoken language, written and/or other symbol systems.
The Language disorder involves one or more of these areas.
(1) language form (phonology, morphology, syntax),
(2) language content (semantics), and/or
(3) language function in communication (pragmatics)
Adult language disorder:
Adults can acquire a language disorder due to an injury to the brain or it can be a developmental and /or occurred during childhood. Adult language disorder is known as Aphasia.
Causes of language impairment in adults:
***Stroke: In stroke individual experiences difficulty walking, speaking, and understanding, as well as paralysis or numbness of the face, arm, or leg.
Traumatic brain injury: A sudden injury caused to the brain is TBI. Traumatic brain injury happens when there is a sudden blow, bump, or jolt to the head. Traumatic brain injuries are closed head injuries. Traumatic brain injuries can also happen because of penetration in the skull. That is knowns as penetrating injury.
Types of aphasia are:
**Global aphasia: In global aphasia large area of the brain is affected. In global aphasia person’s more than one function is affected. Functions like spontaneous speech, repetition of words, receptive language skills, and name finding (more than one or two areas at the same time can be impaired.)
**Broca’s aphasia: In Broca’s aphasia person’s word finding ability is impaired, spontaneous speech and repetition of words might be abnormal. Language comprehension is normal in case of broca’s aphasia.
**wernicke’s aphasia: In Wernicke’s aphasia language comprehension and word finding is impaired. Repetition of words are observed to be abnormal. Spontaneous speech in Wernicke’s aphasia is observed to be fluent. Logorrhea, paraphasia, neologism is sometimes observed in Wernicke’s aphasia.
**Anomic aphasia: In anomic aphasia people have naming difficulty. Fluency is intact but will have difficulty in finding words. Repetitions in spoken language and language comprehension is intact.
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