Thursday, September 27, 2012
Broca's aphasia
Brocas aphasia is brain damage that causes language impairment. I believe my grandmother has this. She has had two strokes and the second one is the one that has really impaired her language. The first stroke she had she was fine. Her personality and humor were still there. She knew something was wrong with her because she felt like she had something on her tongue. For a while she had a little trouble talking and us understanding her. The second stroke she had was the worst. My grandmother has her good and bad days in which we can understand her. She gets frustrated because we don't understand her. I believe that she knows what she wants to say but the words don't come out understandable. Another thing with her is that she recognizes us but she does not know our names.
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I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother, I can relate somewhat to you. My grandfather from my moms side suffered kind of like your grandmother did. He had two strokes, and the last one really did a number on him. He had trouble speaking, and sometimes would mumble when he speaks to...idk if that can be part of bronca's aphasia? the video was very knowledgeable, and explained a lot I got a better insight at what is going on in this section of our readings.
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