Specific information regarding the Communication Sciences and Disorders' Acute Care Speech Language Pathology practicum led by Carley Evans MS CCC SLP. Carley is a medical speech pathologist at the Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. If you are new to this practicum, start with the oldest post listed in Archive.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Fluent vs. Non-Fluent Aphasia

Listen for and document the longest running statement,note the use of content words, especially nouns. Document the presence of complete phrases within utterances that may not be meaningful overall as opposed to truncated utterances that sound like telegrams (telegraphic speech) and carry a great deal of information.

"He is flying a tike" as opposed to "kite fly"
"The boy is (neologism) the co" as opposed to "boy in boat...water"

Both types of verbal output can "sound" dysfluent, but only the second examples are considered "dysfluency" in Aphasia.

Non-fluency often carries a lot of meaning in grammatically incomplete utterances and so is called "telegraphic speech."
Fluency often is "empty speech" in grammatically correct utterances.

1 comment:

christie said...

i love this information! i'll post some things from ASHA later...interesting sessions.