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Two case studies and the question asked you to identify the language impairment in each of the case.
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The first one is john.
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John's major symptom is impaired ability to speak, understand, and read and write.
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So basically, it looks like john's severe stroke has resulted in a significant language impairment, likely due to the damage in a brain region that is responsible for language processing.
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So in this case, his symptoms suggest a condition known as the global aphasia.
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So aphasia is a language disorder that affects a person's ability to communicate, and mainly because of the damage to the brain's language control area.
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So this is the main cause.
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And if we want to list all the characteristics of global aphasia, let's look at the characteristics that will match john's symptoms.
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First of all, speech production.
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So john struggled to articulate his thoughts.
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So this actually indicates a severe disruption in the motor aspect of the speech production, which actually fit the characteristics of global aphasia.
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Another important characteristic of global aphasia is language comprehension.
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It looks like john's ability to understand spoken language is severely impaired.
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This suggests that the language comprehension area of the brain is also damaged by the stroke.
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The third characteristic is reading and writing.
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And his difficulty extent to reading and writing indicated a broad impact of the i would say the language -related functions and the communication challenge because of the combination of expressive and receptive which means you he has trouble expressing his idea and also understand receive the language so this lead to a significant communication challenge affect his ability to to convey his basic need.
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And we just mentioned it's both expressive and receptive.
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So he has trouble expressing and receiving information.
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Lastly, despite ongoing speech therapy, john's impairment improvements are very slow, so slow progress.
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So this is also reflecting the nature of the brain damage language processing area...