visual aphasia
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visual aphasia — noun inability to perceive written words • Syn: ↑alexia, ↑word blindness • Hypernyms: ↑aphasia * * * noun : aphasia in which a person is unable to comprehend written words previously understood … Useful english dictionary
Aphasia — For other uses, see Aphasia (disambiguation). Aphasia Classification and external resources ICD 10 F80.0 F80.2, R … Wikipedia
aphasia — /afeyzh(iy)a/ Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech. A condition in which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understanding and with the organs of speech unimpaired, is unable (in motor aphasia ) to utter articulate words,… … Black's law dictionary
aphasia — /afeyzh(iy)a/ Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech. A condition in which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understanding and with the organs of speech unimpaired, is unable (in motor aphasia ) to utter articulate words,… … Black's law dictionary
Aphasia — Literally aphasia means no speech. Aphasia can apply to a defect in expression or comprehension. * * * Impaired or absent comprehension or production of, or communication by, speech, writing, or signs, due to an acquired lesion of the dominant… … Medical dictionary
Visual Action Therapy — Beim VAT handelt es sich um ein nonverbales Therapiekonzept, das, wie die MIT (Melodische Intonationstherapie) von Nancy Helm Estabrooks[1] und ihren Kollegen in Boston (Harward) entwickelt wurde. Das Ziel des Konzeptes ist, kompensatorisch… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Conduction aphasia — Classification and external resources Broca s area and Wernicke s area MeSH … Wikipedia
Nominal aphasia — Anomic aphasia Classification and external resources Diffusion tensor imaging image of the brain showing the right and left arcuate fasciculus (Raf Laf). Also shown are the right and left superior longitudinal fasciculus (Rslf Lslf) … Wikipedia
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination — The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination or BDAE is a test used to evaluate adults suspected of having aphasia, and is currently in its third edition. It was created by Harold Goodglass and Edith Kaplan. The BDAE evaluates language skills based… … Wikipedia
receptive aphasia — n SENSORY APHASIA * * * inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers. Cf. motor a. Called also impressive a., sensory a., and Wernicke a … Medical dictionary
