Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Expressive Aphasia
I am on my neuro prac at the moment and have come across an elderly lady who is now 5 days post (L) MCA stroke. From my assessment, it appears that the patient is able to understand spoken language and is able to answer simple 'yes' or 'no' questions, however suffers from expressive aphasia therefore I am unable to make any sense of her spoken words. She expresses herself fairly well using facial expressions, so I am able to detect if she is in pain or shows that she has a general interest in what is going on with our treatment sessions. I still feel that I could get more information from her non-verbally. I was wondering if anyone has come across a similar situation and has developed their own strategies to more effectively deal with the situaiton?
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Is she right handed or left handed? One strategy I used was get the patient to write things down.,provided the hemi side is the non dominant side.
BUT apart from being anal isn;t the defn of expressive aphasia technically "the inability to express oneself using verbal and/or written language" hence writing wouldn't really work... Although i suppose you could have one and not the other..BUT if you had one if WOULD make more sense that you'd have the other as well. OH DEAR. confused.
p.s. in response to the original question no, i have no idea. I will try to think of something...but probably end up confusing you all when i write it down- expressive aphasia??. heh.
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