Broca's Aphasi Video Analysis

Aphasia is “impairment due to localized brain injury that affects understanding, retrieving and formulating meaningful and sequential elements of language” (p.165). There are two main categories of aphasia known as fluent and nonfluent. Fluent aphasia is characterized by “word substations, neologisms, and often verbose verbal output. Lesions in fluent aphasia tend to be found in the posterior portions of the left hemisphere.” (p.166) One of the most common types of fluent aphasias is Wernicke’s Aphasia. This is a short clip of Byron Peterson a stroke survivor who has acquired Wernicke’s Aphasia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0

Nonfluent is characterized by “slow, labored speech and struggle to retrieve words and form sentences. In general, the site of lesion is in or near the frontal.” (p.166) One of the most common types of nonfluent aphasia is Broca’s Aphasia. This is a clip of Sarah Scott who had a stroke seven years ago which led to her acquiring Broca’s Aphasia, each year she creates an updated video of her progress, she sure has come a long way! This YouTube video is a year after she had the stroke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aplTvEQ6ew

The 62 year old patient is believed to have expressive aphasia which is a type of nonfluent aphasia. Expressive aphasia

Issues with her fine motor skills; and expressive aphasia, even more critical, results in the inability to verbalize sound. This makes it difficult for her to perform speech discrimination testing. The reason why this patient would have difficulty with speech discrimination is not due to inability to understand speech but rather to produce it. Although the client is able to hear and comprehend speech, she is not able to create it so being tested by using speech stimuli would prove to be unbeneficial and also produce false results of the patients ability to understand