Agraphia

Question 1

Agraphia

Answer 1

disabilities with writing

Question 2

pure agraphia

Answer 2

can read, but can’t write

occurs in the absence of other sign. lang. impairments

Question 3

surface agraphia

Answer 3

breakdown in the graphemic output lexicon
write "how it sounds"
soundt o letter conversion may be intact
more difficulty with irregular spelling
usually CAN write pseudowords

Question 4

______agraphia is often seen in aphasia

Answer 4

surface

Question 5

global agraphia

Answer 5

same as surface agraphia, but cannot use the non-lexical route to write

• no regularity effect
• cannot write pseudowords
• very limited # of correctly spelled words

Question 6

Deep Agraphia

Answer 6

breakdown in semantic system & “sound to letter “conversion
-written semantic errors (apple for orange)
-poor phoneme-to-grapheme conversion (difficulty writing with sounds)
-frequency effect (high freq easier than low frequency words)
concreteness/imageablitliy effect
word class effect (nouns easier than function)
inability to write non-words

Question 7

graphemic buffer agraphia

Answer 7

• *seen more often
• graphemic buffer
• breakdown in graphemic buffer
• difficulty holding words i memory while selecting graphemes (letters)
• affects all writing taskes
• spelling errors
• word length effect