APHASIA TYPES 2026/2027 | COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION, DEFINITIONS & EXAM
REVIEW
Fluent Aphasia's - ANS ✔✔Wernicke's.
Transcortical Sensory.
Conduction.
Anomia.
Non-Fluent Aphasia's - ANS ✔✔Broca's.
Transcortical Motor.
Mixed.
Global.
Broca's aphasia - ANS ✔✔-Good auditory comprehension.
-Agrammatism.
-Anomia.
-Poor repetition.
-aphasia survivors. (initiate speech, keep at therapy)
-Broadman's area 44 and 45, deep cortical damage surrounding broca's area.
Transcortical Motor aphasia - ANS ✔✔-good comprehension.
-good repetition skills. can repeat phrases when spoken to (unlike broca's)
-little spontaneous speech: filled with anomia and agrammatism. difficulty initiating
-apathy - withdrawn and disinterested in therapy/recovery. (difference from broca's)
-echolalia. (perseverative speech)
, -lesion more anterior to broca's.
Mixed aphasia - ANS ✔✔-combination of sensory and motor aphasia.
-poor comprehension - severe auditory comprehension and output deficits. Limited output.
-good repetition.
-reading and writing skills severely impaired.
-group somewhere between Broca's and Wernicke's.
-complete watershed of where ACA, MCA, and PCA hit.
Global aphasia - ANS ✔✔-massive lesion to the left hemisphere. usually blood clots occur at
juncture of circle of Willis.
-all language modalities are impaired.
-may have some utterances. (recurrent stereotypy)
-right hemiparesis, hemiplegia, hemi-neglect.
-sensory loss.
-verbal/oral apraxia.
-unilateral spastic dysarthria.
-because they have the concepts stored, they know how the real world works so they can still
navigate their environment.
Wernicke's - ANS ✔✔-poor comprehension.
-poor repetition - not even single word.
-severe word finding problems.
-paraphasias. (see changes in how they're utilized)
-jargon. (output sounds like language, fluency category, but you can't understand them)
-paragrammatism
-right homonymous hemianopsia
REVIEW
Fluent Aphasia's - ANS ✔✔Wernicke's.
Transcortical Sensory.
Conduction.
Anomia.
Non-Fluent Aphasia's - ANS ✔✔Broca's.
Transcortical Motor.
Mixed.
Global.
Broca's aphasia - ANS ✔✔-Good auditory comprehension.
-Agrammatism.
-Anomia.
-Poor repetition.
-aphasia survivors. (initiate speech, keep at therapy)
-Broadman's area 44 and 45, deep cortical damage surrounding broca's area.
Transcortical Motor aphasia - ANS ✔✔-good comprehension.
-good repetition skills. can repeat phrases when spoken to (unlike broca's)
-little spontaneous speech: filled with anomia and agrammatism. difficulty initiating
-apathy - withdrawn and disinterested in therapy/recovery. (difference from broca's)
-echolalia. (perseverative speech)
, -lesion more anterior to broca's.
Mixed aphasia - ANS ✔✔-combination of sensory and motor aphasia.
-poor comprehension - severe auditory comprehension and output deficits. Limited output.
-good repetition.
-reading and writing skills severely impaired.
-group somewhere between Broca's and Wernicke's.
-complete watershed of where ACA, MCA, and PCA hit.
Global aphasia - ANS ✔✔-massive lesion to the left hemisphere. usually blood clots occur at
juncture of circle of Willis.
-all language modalities are impaired.
-may have some utterances. (recurrent stereotypy)
-right hemiparesis, hemiplegia, hemi-neglect.
-sensory loss.
-verbal/oral apraxia.
-unilateral spastic dysarthria.
-because they have the concepts stored, they know how the real world works so they can still
navigate their environment.
Wernicke's - ANS ✔✔-poor comprehension.
-poor repetition - not even single word.
-severe word finding problems.
-paraphasias. (see changes in how they're utilized)
-jargon. (output sounds like language, fluency category, but you can't understand them)
-paragrammatism
-right homonymous hemianopsia
