Role of Health Educator for Stroke Patients

1. Communication disorders
Fareedah Alsaigh
Speech and language therapist

2. Language: A system of conventional spoken, manual or written
symbols by means of which human beings as member of social
group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
Speech: The expression of or ability to express thoughts and
feelings by articulate sounds.

3. Dysarthria:
Is a motor speech disorder in which the muscle that are used to
produce speech are damaged, paralyzed or weakened.

4. Aphasia
• What is aphasia ?
• What causes aphasia ?
• Symptoms of aphasia ?
• How is aphasia diagnosed ?
• What types of aphasia are there ?

5. Aphasia: is an impairment of language affecting the production
or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.

6. Causes:
• Stroke.
• Head trauma.
• Brain tumors.
• Infections.

7. Symptoms & diagnosis
• Naming
• Fluency
• Repetition
• Reading and writing
• Comprehension

8. CLASSIFICATION OF APHASIA
Fluent non-fluent

9. • Fluent aphasia : person is able to produce connected speech,
sentence structure is relatively intact but lacks meaning.
• Non-fluent : speech production is halting and effortful .
grammar is impaired ,content words may be preserved.

10. Three most common types of aphasia are
• Broca's aphasia
• Whernicke's aphasia
• Global aphasia

11. Thank you