This course provides an overview of aphasia as being a language disorder that can affect a person’s use of language. It opens with defining aphasia in psychology and doctrol sciences as well as exploring common signs and symptoms that people with aphasia may experience and highlighting different types of aphasia according to Boston classification. Then it presents major causes leading to a damage to Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas in the brain that control speech and language recognition. It also provides a clear explanation of how speech-language pathologists conduct an evaluation to diagnosis aphasia through some basic exercises and how they treat it using speech and language therapy techniques. Finally, the course concludes with providing few tips that can help people to communicate with someone that has aphasia and presenting some precautions that can be taken to avoid strokes as being the main cause of aphasia.
- Teacher: basma bougoffa