Recovery and Rehabilitation of Adult Aphasic Patients

Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions

“…In Table 1, a two-dimensional model is provided to allow comparison of patients functioning in different modalities when the linguistic materials are the same. Five different language modalities which have been reported in the aphasia literature (Ludlow 1981) as critical in syndrome classification are: auditory comprehension of language; speech repetition (imitation); speech expression; reading comprehension; and written expression. In the other direction, five different types of linguistic knowledge are identified: phonetic, phonologic, lexical, semantic, and syntactic .…”