REEDUCATION IN APHASIA
1923; American Medical Association; Volume: 81; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1923.02650160029009
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
ResumoAphasia is defined as a loss of or modification of the ability to change concepts into words in spite of the integrity of the speech machinery. It is also a loss of the ability to understand the audible word in spite of the fact that hearing ability may be present. There is often inability to speak spontaneously or to use words. Reading, writing and writing from dictation are involved. Copying may be impossible. Motor aphasia is the failure to express ideas. Sensory aphasia is the failure to receive impressions and transmute them first into ideas and then express them. REPORT OF CASE History. —C. J. K., a man, aged 36, a plumber, married, with one son, was struck on the left side of the head by the propeller of an aeroplane wind machine that he was starting, Nov. 5. 1919. A concave area extending from the middle line of the
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