This paper investigates recurrent use of the phrase "very good" by a speaker with non-fluent agrammatic aphasia. Informal observation of the speaker's interaction reveals that she appears to be an effective conversational partner despite very severe word retrieval difficulties that result in extensive reliance on variants of the phrase "very…

Bilinguals must focus their attention to control competing languages. In bilingual aphasia, damage to the fronto-subcortical loop may lead to pathological language switching and mixing and the attrition of the more automatic language (usually L1). We present the case of JZ, a bilingual Basque-Spanish 53-year-old man who, after haematoma in the…

Conduction aphasia is a type of fluent aphasia, which is caused due to the damage to the supramarginal gyrus and arcuate fasciculus resulting in repetition disturbance. It has been speculated that linguistic system in bilingual aphasics can breakdown in different ways across languages. There is a lack of detailed linguistic studies in specific…

A SYMPOSIUM WAS HELD AT THE PATHWAY SCHOOL TO ESTABLISH WORKING DEFINITIONS OF APHASIC AND BRAIN-INJURED CHILDREN. BASIC NEEDS WERE IDENTIFIED AND PROGRAMS WERE INDICATED WHICH WOULD RESULT IN HABILITATION. THE PARTICIPANTS AGREED THAT SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO MEET SPECIFIC NEEDS ARE NECESSARY, AND WELL-TRAINED, SYMPATHETIC…