Verbal Impairment Associated with Brain Damage

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1966

Creator: United States Public Health Service

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Describes related types and symptoms of verbal impairment associated with brain damage, including aphasia, verbal aprasic, and dysarthria. Differentiates between aphasia, involving impairment in the encoding and decoding process with a regard to vocabulary and syntax, and verbal apraxia, involving muscular impairment as well as phonemic impairment. Shows clinicians working with persons having these three impairments.

Complete Record: Describes related types and symptoms of verbal impairment associated with brain damage, including aphasia, verbal aprasic, and dysarthria. Differentiates between aphasia, involving impairment in the encoding and decoding process with a regard to vocabulary and syntax, and verbal apraxia, involving muscular impairment as well as phonemic impairment. Shows clinicians working with persons having these three impairments., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.