• What is Aphasia?
  • Definition
• Mechanisms of Aphasias - Causes of Aphasia
  • Cerebrovascular Accident or stroke
    • General Information
      • Disease
      • Arteriosclerosis
      • Atherosclerosis
      • Hypertension
    • Two general types of stroke:
      • Ischemia
      • Hemorrhage
    • Blood Supply to Cortex
      • Anterior Cerebral Artery
      • Middle Cerebral Artery
      • Posterior Cerebral Artery
      • Circle of Willis
  • Trauma
    • Closed Head Injury
    • Open Head Injury
    • Traumatic Brain Injury
• Symptoms
  • Definition
  • Spoken Language
    • Anomia
      • Paraphasias
      • Circumlocutions
    • Agrammatism
    • Jargon
    • Verbal Stereotypes
  • Auditory Comprehension
  • Written Language
  • Reading
  • Preservation
  • Awareness and Self-Correction.
• Syndromes of Aphasia
  • Syndrome
  • Boston Classification System (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1972)
    • Nonfluent Aphasias
      • Broca's Aphasia
      • Global Aphasia
      • Transcortical Motor Aphasia
    • Fluent Aphasias
      • Wernicke's Aphasia
      • Conduction Aphasia
      • Anomic Aphasia
      • Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

 Resources

• Healthlinkusa
• National Association of Aphasia
• NIDCD