| No aphasia, normal |
No aphasia, normal |
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| Mild to moderate aphasia: some obvious loss of fluency or facility of comprehension, without significant limitation on ideas expressed or form of expression. Reduction of speech and/or comprehension, however, makes conversation about provided material difficult or impossible. For example in conversation about provided materials examiner can identify picture or naming card from patient's response. |
Mild to moderate aphasia: some obvious loss of fluency or facility of comprehension, without significant limitation on ideas expressed or form of expression. Reduction of speech and/or comprehension, however, makes conversation about provided material difficult or impossible. For example in conversation about provided materials examiner can identify picture or naming card from patient's response. |
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| Severe aphasia: all communication is through fragmentary expression, great need for inference, questioning, and guessing by the listener. Range of information that can be exchanged is limited: listener carries burden of communication. Examiner cannot identify materials provided from patient response. |
Severe aphasia: all communication is through fragmentary expression, great need for inference, questioning, and guessing by the listener. Range of information that can be exchanged is limited: listener carries burden of communication. Examiner cannot identify materials provided from patient response. |
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| Mute, global aphasia: no usable speech or auditory comprehension. |
Mute, global aphasia: no usable speech or auditory comprehension. |
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