Conduction Aphasia

Question 1

Fluent or non-fluent?

Answer 1

Fluent.

Question 2

Location

Answer 2

lesions in the arcuate fasciculus- the connecting nerve tracts between Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia.

Question 3

Auditory Conprehension

Answer 3

Fair to Good

Question 4

Reading Comprehension

Answer 4

Fair to good.

Question 5

Verbal expression

Answer 5

Phonemic paraphasia are particularly prevalent, semantic paraphasias due to word finding difficulty can also occur.
Good awareness of word finding difficulty can cause lots of repetition and retrial behaviour.
Key feature= inability to repeat what they hear

Question 6

Written expression

Answer 6

usually well formed letter construction. Spelling errors, transpositions of letters and words can occur.

Question 7

Other features

Answer 7

Good awareness of errors
Surprise at difficulty in repeating words/phrases
Production of several phonemic variants of target word in effort to achieve correct word.