ipl-logo

Neurogenic Speech Disorders

770 Words4 Pages

Abstract
Neurogenic speech disorders are defined as an inability to exchange information with others due to nervous system impairment. (Types of ..) Although there are several types of Neurogenic speech disorders such as aprosody and apraxia of speech, this paper will be focused on the disorder otherwise known as, aphasia. With the help of four different sources, I will address the symptoms of aphasia and how it is classified. I will also explore the limitations and challenges that come with having aphasia, both mentally and socially. Finally, I will explain several methods used by speech pathologists to help with aphasia. My goal is to inform and create awareness about aphasia in hopes that it will break down barriers between those with aphasia …show more content…

As Monica Johansson states, knowledge about how aphasia affects communication in a person’s life is surprisingly scarce. (uudiva.portal) Therefore, as Speech Pathologists we can help patients with aphasia by knowing what it is and how it is caused, by knowing the limitations of people with aphasia, and finally, by knowing different methods that will directly help those with aphasia.
Definition of Aphasia and its Classification/Symptoms
Aphasia can be classified into three sub-categories, depending on how serious the person’s case is. A doctor may classify a patient with nonfluent aphasia, in which the left frontal area of the brain is damaged. Otherwise known as Broca aphasia, people who have Broca aphasia find it difficult to formulate words, and often tend to speak in abrupt sentences and omit words. Though a person may say, “Want food” or “Walk park today.” it is usually easy for the listener to understand the context of the conversation. People with this level of aphasia understand what others are saying, better than they can speak. On the other hand, people with the form of fluent aphasia may speak with ease and in long, complex sentences but often times they do not make sense. They normally are not aware of the fact that others cannot understand them. This form of aphasia is the result of damage

Show More
Related

  • GCU Reflection Paper

    870 Words  | 4 Pages

    The client had an L-hemisphere CVA on 8/11/10. After the stroke, the client was admitted for a 5 day acute care hospitalization and then into an inpatient rehab setting for six weeks for one hour every day. Through a speech evaluation, the client was diagnosed with a mild anomic aphasia and mild apraxia of speech. The client 's goals are to improve her mobility, communication, and return home. This session was a re-assessment six months after she was discharged from the inpatient rehab setting.

    Read More

  • Speech Sounds Octavia Butler Summary

    906 Words  | 4 Pages

    No one is able to speak; disputes are settled with fists; society has crumbled. This scenario forms the basis to Octavia Butler’s short story “Speech Sounds.” No one knows how or why, but everyone present on earth is mentally disabled in some fashion. These disabilities include—but are not limited to—speech impediments, hearing impairments, illiteracy, and an inability to reason. Butler tells the story through the eyes of Valerie Rye, one of the few humans who can communicate.

    Read More

  • What Is The Theme Of Speech Sounds By Octavia Butler

    800 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the story “Speech Sounds” written by Octavia Butler an illness has taken over the world in which people are unable to speak. The main character Rye is a college English professor that is traveling to Pasanda to visit some of her relatives that have survived the terrible illness. After the bus gets stopped due to a fight, she meets another main character named Obsidian whom she becomes friends with and chooses to travel the rest of the way with instead of waiting on the train. The two characters have two major challenges, one being that Rye can speak and understand communication while Obsidian cannot understand verbal communication at all. Rye was challenged by not knowing how to communicate with Obsidian without using words.

    Read More

  • Speech-Language Pathology: A Personal Statement

    740 Words  | 3 Pages

    I first discovered speech-language pathology back when I was in high school, in a very unexpected way. I was talking with my grandmother, who had told me she received her Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology after my father was born. My father has had hearing aids since the age of five, and had to continuously attend speech therapy while growing up. My grandmother told me stories of how she would sit with my father every night, away from his six other siblings, with the lights off and talk to him. She would say words to him, which he would then have to repeat back to her, without relying on his normal trick of reading lips.

    Read More

  • Melodic Intonation Therapy

    731 Words  | 3 Pages

    from 100 times per hour to zero per hour. According to Goldfarb (2006), overcorrection needs to be done right after the undesired behaviour is performed because the children might think the overcorrection is arbitrary and not directly towards that unpleasant behaviour. Next, Goldfarb also acknowledged that overcorrection need to be done repeatedly and the duration also needs to be lengthy to prevent the children from lost focus and directed to other reinforcing activities. For the person that suffered from aphasia, there is plenty of treatment which is useful for them. Aphasia is a condition where the person have trouble in either comprehension or fluency in language due to impairment in a certain part of the brain (Damasto A.R.,

    Read More

  • Career As A Speech-Language Pathologist

    392 Words  | 2 Pages

    A Speech-Language Pathologist works directly with a wide variety of patients, birth to adulthood who suffers from speech or language disorders. Those disorders may include disfluency, expressive or receptive language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders. I am fervid about helping individuals, and I have seen first-hand how important our voice truly is. This is why I chose a career in this field, I want to help, and give a voice to those who are not always heard. As a Speech- Language Pathologist it is important that you obtain certain trains in order to be successful; including, interpersonal skills, teamwork, and problem solving skills.

    Read More

  • Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Personal Statement

    666 Words  | 3 Pages

    Albeit all different, most have one thing in common, echolalia. As a student of the masters program I hope to research ways I can better understand the reason behind it and what intervention methods are best. My goal in research is to support my clients in achieving a more spontaneous and intentional way of communication. Throughout my practice, I have struggled with where to praise a direct imitation when a child gains their first few words to a growing concern when it takes the form of a more gestalt language process. In addition to echolalia research, I hope to contribute to the neurodiverse population with more research on ways for therapists to provide affirming and strengths based therapy.

    Read More

  • Stuttering: The Incredible Power Of Speech

    224 Words  | 1 Pages

    SAY, the Stuttering Association for the Youth, supports children who stutter feel less alone, and feel more self-confident. Stuttering can make a person repeat, or stretch out syllables, and/or become silent in the middle of a word or sentence. As mentioned in the article,” The Incredible Power of Speech”, it’s no surprise that scientists find it difficult to discover a cure for stuttering. The complex production of your voice includes the working together of your body parts. Regardless of the curing process being a hard and an extremely complicated one, according to, “The Incredible Power of Speech”, scientists have managed to pinpoint parts of the brain that control speech.

    Read More

  • Speech Pathology Essay

    1009 Words  | 5 Pages

    Children with motor speech control or more likely to have trouble with morphemes, like /s/ or /z/, making it so they do not use plural forms. Another thing found in motor speech disorders is disorganized or omitted words in sentences, or sentences being simplified because they have difficulty with speech production. All of these problems with morphology and syntax can be easily fixed with the help of a speech pathologist. One major tool that basically all speech pathologist use is Brown’s stages of syntactic and morphological development. “Browns stages of development was developed by Roger Brown, the stages help determine what path the normal expressive language development in English, in terms of morphology and syntax.(1984 Brown & Brooks)”

    Read More

  • Speech-Language Pathologists In Long-Term Care

    1340 Words  | 6 Pages

    A friend of mine brought up Speech-Language Pathology one day, a term I was unfamiliar with. I researched the strange word “pathology” and was surprised that I found the profession interesting. I conducted a PowerPoint on this career in my writing class, shortly after my interest in Speech-Pathology began. After I gave my presentation, there was no doubt

    Read More

  • B. F. Skinner's Theory: Reinforcement And Conditioning

    1523 Words  | 7 Pages

    Overcorrection is a punishment method which may be helpful with adult aphasia patients. The process involved to reduce the unwanted behaviour need a person to correct the environmental consequences of an inappropriate act and should be followed by the right form of act (Goldfarb, 2006). In his research paper, he did mention about Foxx and Azrin (1973) experiments on some procedures were taken to stop self-stimulatory behaviour in patients with developmental delay (DD) and ASD. Even though the outcome was not completely stop the behaviour but overall it was a positive trend.

    Read More

  • Neurogenic Disorder: Aphasia

    1113 Words  | 5 Pages

    Research on the Neurogenic Disorder: Aphasia There are several types of Neurogenic speech disorders such as aprosody and apraxia of speech, but in this paper will be focused on the disorder otherwise known as, aphasia. Classified as a language disorder, aphasia debilitates a person’s ability to form, read, write and/or understand spoken language (“American Speech,” n.d.). My goal is to inform and create awareness about aphasia in hopes that it will break down the barriers between those with aphasia and those without. The purpose of this paper is to help patients with aphasia by knowing the three stages of aphasia, by knowing the psychosocial challenges of people with aphasia, and finally, by knowing different methods that will directly help

    Read More

  • Childhood Apraxia Of Speech Essay

    1402 Words  | 6 Pages

    Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a childhood neurological speech sound disorder which is characterized by impairment of the consistency and precision of movements underlying speech with the main impairment consisting of programming and/or planning spatiotemporal aspects of movement sequences resulting in speech sound prosody and production errors (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007). CAS is present in pediatric populations as contrasted with Apraxia of Speech (AOS) which is an adult diagnosis. Childhood apraxia of speech is considered controversial by some researchers. Shriberg (n.d.) argues that although the diagnostic term is undoubtedly accurate, it has not yet been backed up by sufficient or compelling research

    Read More

  • Body Language In Joe Navarro's What Every Body Is Saying

    1592 Words  | 7 Pages

    Now your body is saying. Did you know that you not only used, when they contact with someone, they have to talk so this is the reason why the spoken language skill is probably important in daily life the mouth to say but also used the whole body to say? Naturally, human is social animal so they need communicate with each other for survival and growth of their life. Actually the most people usually spend their time to using and practicing only the spoken language to communication and improving their relationship. They know how to choose the word for expression of their feeling, they know the meaning of many words, and they almost realize everything in spoken language.

    Read More

  • Too Many Misconceptions About Aphasia

    1588 Words  | 7 Pages

    Indeed, among healthy people there are many misconceptions about aphasia. Older people of course meet more problems with the phenomenon, but also younger people are confronted with it. One of the misconceptions is that aphasia patients are by default seen as ´dumb´

    Read More

More about Neurogenic Speech Disorders

Open Document