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Essay / Essay on aphasia - 579
The neuroanatomical approach to aphasia is based on the location of lesions on the brain in addition to clinical observation in order to classify patients according to syndromes. For example, according to the neuroanatomical approach, Broca's aphasia, which is usually associated with damage to the posteroinferior frontal gyrus of the brain, has cardinal features that distinguish it from other fluent and non-fluent aphasias (e.g., poor repetition, bad repetition). and poor naming with good listening comprehension). In this model, the general process of assessing a person with aphasia involves: (1) Gathering the client's history (e.g., a car accident resulting in an anterior superior frontal lobe injury (in the case of transcortical motor aphasia);(2) Administer a specific test battery (e.g., the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE), Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia (PALPA), or Alberta Language Function Battery);(3) Comparison test results with description of client behavior (e.g. good auditory communication...