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aphasia therapy
Rka Kutasi
University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Tirgu Mures, Romania
Throughout the years scientists have been intensively preoccupied
with the study of the origins and evolution of a language.
In order to obtain a clear and concise evidence disciplines like
linguistics, psychology, neuroanatomy etc. have been included in
this study thus emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of the
evolution of languages.
According to Ardila,(A Proposed Neurological Interpretation of
Language Evolution, 2015) there are three different stages in
human language evolution:
Primitive communication systems;
Initial language systems;
Advanced communication systems.
There are two main areas/systems of the brain that are involved in
language processing:
the loss or impairment of language function caused by brain damage (D. Frank
Benson and Alfredo Ardila, Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective,1996)
a language disorder that occurs in adults following focal brain damage, typically
involving the language dominant cerebral hemisphere (A.L. Holland, D.S. Fromm, F.
DeRuyter, M. Stein, Treatment efficacy: aphasia, 1996)
o poor vocabulary including only a few words or syllables, the patient thus
adopting a telegraphic style;
o phonematic paraphasias or phonetic disintegration (production of
linguistic structures, especially words with incorrect phonemes);
o syntax disorder (agrammatism);
o word finding problems;
o poor pronunciation;
o poor melodic prosody;
o poor right-hand writing;
o depressiveness;
o limited communication.
o Wernickes aphasia (fluent aphasia)