Aphasia a language disoreder

1. Acquired Childhood
Aphasia
Arooba Asmat
BS Slp

2. Aphasia
• A language disorder may also be caused by
damage to the central nervous system, which
is called aphasia.

3. Developmental language disorder
• When the cause is unknown, it is called a
developmental language disorder.
• Language disorders may occur in children with
other developmental problems such as
autistic spectrum disorders, hearing loss, and
learning disabilities.

4. What is acquired aphasia?
• Acquired aphasia during childhood is almost
never fluent (mutism), but they recover
rapidly.

5. Prevalence
• Approximately 1 in 20 children has symptoms
of a language disorder.

6. Causes
• Result of accident or disease
 Stroke
 Tumor
 Trauma
 Disease (e.g., Pick’s Disease,
AKA fronto temporal dementia)

7. Development
• Aphasia may occur suddenly or develop over
time, depending on the type and location of
brain tissue damage.

8. Signs and symptoms
• Word-finding and vocabulary difficulties
• Inability to comprehend language
• Inability to pronounce
• Inability to form words
• Inability to name objects
• Persistent repetiotions of phrases
• Paraphasia (substitution of letters or words)
• Agrammatism (inability to speak in a grammatically
correct form)
• Uncompleted sentences
• Inability to write
• Inability to read

9. Age
• 0-3 months: no effect
• 21-36 months: all language
accomplishments disappear; language is
re-acquired with repetition of all stages.
• 3-10 years: aphasic symptoms, tendency
for full recovery
• 11th year on: aphasic symptoms persist.

10. • Language disorders are rarely caused by a lack
of intelligence.

11. Recovery
• Recovery is faster, better than in adult
acquired aphasia, but not complete.

12. Hemispheres
• Early enough, right hemisphere can take over
language functions after a serious loss in the
left hemisphere, but it doesn’t do as good a
job.