APHASIA EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | APHASIA STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST
2026/2027
symptoms - correct answer ✔✔what the client tells you --- "i can't communicate fluently"
signs - correct answer ✔✔clinicians examination of client--- "effortful speech connects to
Broca’s"
syndrome - correct answer ✔✔group of symptoms-- this group of symptoms point to brocas
aphasia
•For legal and reinbursement it is important to use "brocas" and Fluent vs nonfluent BUT !!---
each individual person with aphasia is a unique, complex individual regardless of how anyone
might categorize his or her linguistic symptoms. We should evaluate their symptoms and the
functional impacts of these signs have on the client - correct answer ✔✔how should clinician
classify aphasia?
1. nonfluent/expressive/ ANTERIOR aphasias (NEA)
2. fluent/receptive/ posterior aphasias (FRP) - correct answer ✔✔what are the two main
dichtomies??
fluent - correct answer ✔✔people with _______ aphasia tend to have more fifficulty
understanding language as opposed to formulating language
expressive aphasia - correct answer ✔✔more difficulty with production as opposed to
comprehension
wernickes
brocas - correct answer ✔✔people with ______ aphasia are titled fluent and people with _____
aphasia are titled
, broadmann 22 and posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus - correct answer ✔✔where
is the damage in brocas area-- broadmanns and gyrus
moderate to severe: anomia
semantic paraphsia and iliteral paraphasia, jargon, neologisms, circumlocutions, press of
speech, logorrea - moderate to severe comprehension - correct answer ✔✔What are the
symptoms of wernickes aphasia?
expressive non fluent brocas - correct answer ✔✔◦ more difficulty with production as opposed
to comprehension
◦are those in which people generate few words, content units (elements of meaning), or
utterances per unit of time. Given that people with nonfluent aphasia tend to understand
language better than they produce language, nonfluent forms of aphasia are also sometimes
called expressive aphasia.
global, brocas, transcortical motor aphasia - correct answer ✔✔what are the non-fluent
aphasias?
wernikes, transcortical sensory, conduction - correct answer ✔✔what are the fluent aphasia?
agrammatism- a deficit in formulating and processing syntax - correct answer ✔✔what is the
primary hallmark feature of brocas aphasia?
effortful speech, agrammatism, dysnomia - correct answer ✔✔what are the 3 main symptoms
of brocas aphasia
Effortfully produced short simple phrases, containing content words and absent or incorrect
function words and morphology - correct answer ✔✔what is agrammatism?
2026/2027
symptoms - correct answer ✔✔what the client tells you --- "i can't communicate fluently"
signs - correct answer ✔✔clinicians examination of client--- "effortful speech connects to
Broca’s"
syndrome - correct answer ✔✔group of symptoms-- this group of symptoms point to brocas
aphasia
•For legal and reinbursement it is important to use "brocas" and Fluent vs nonfluent BUT !!---
each individual person with aphasia is a unique, complex individual regardless of how anyone
might categorize his or her linguistic symptoms. We should evaluate their symptoms and the
functional impacts of these signs have on the client - correct answer ✔✔how should clinician
classify aphasia?
1. nonfluent/expressive/ ANTERIOR aphasias (NEA)
2. fluent/receptive/ posterior aphasias (FRP) - correct answer ✔✔what are the two main
dichtomies??
fluent - correct answer ✔✔people with _______ aphasia tend to have more fifficulty
understanding language as opposed to formulating language
expressive aphasia - correct answer ✔✔more difficulty with production as opposed to
comprehension
wernickes
brocas - correct answer ✔✔people with ______ aphasia are titled fluent and people with _____
aphasia are titled
, broadmann 22 and posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus - correct answer ✔✔where
is the damage in brocas area-- broadmanns and gyrus
moderate to severe: anomia
semantic paraphsia and iliteral paraphasia, jargon, neologisms, circumlocutions, press of
speech, logorrea - moderate to severe comprehension - correct answer ✔✔What are the
symptoms of wernickes aphasia?
expressive non fluent brocas - correct answer ✔✔◦ more difficulty with production as opposed
to comprehension
◦are those in which people generate few words, content units (elements of meaning), or
utterances per unit of time. Given that people with nonfluent aphasia tend to understand
language better than they produce language, nonfluent forms of aphasia are also sometimes
called expressive aphasia.
global, brocas, transcortical motor aphasia - correct answer ✔✔what are the non-fluent
aphasias?
wernikes, transcortical sensory, conduction - correct answer ✔✔what are the fluent aphasia?
agrammatism- a deficit in formulating and processing syntax - correct answer ✔✔what is the
primary hallmark feature of brocas aphasia?
effortful speech, agrammatism, dysnomia - correct answer ✔✔what are the 3 main symptoms
of brocas aphasia
Effortfully produced short simple phrases, containing content words and absent or incorrect
function words and morphology - correct answer ✔✔what is agrammatism?
