What Is Wernicke's Aphasia

A brief video to help you understand Wernicke’s aphasia.

[alexdcpe]

very curious how this manifests in people who speak multiple languages, especially more than 2. Are the speech patterns the same in all languages, are some languages more affected than others?

[bradmiller]

So do they understand what they are hearing and know how to respond appropriately but just can't use their language correctly? I don't think this point is clear enough. Are they understanding us or are they intellectually impaired? Simply forming unfathomable sentences when trying to communicate signifies brain damage but I don't think I would identify that as intellectual/cognitive impairment.

[danktankdragkings]

So I think I have Wernicke's. Does this sound right? When I'm stressed or brain fatigued after a couple sever brain injuries this happens.

I go from please grab me the red spatula in the kitchen drawer to please spatula kitchen drawer to spatula drawer to red sp-sp-spatula to please sp-sp urgh spoon flip thingy food room. - to red spat to only sign language. I maintain pretty proficient ASL/SEE when it happens. I know I'm losing my words. I'm seeing myself deteriorate.

And receptively when fatigue etc sets in I start to hear only the stressed syllables and have to play a big game of mad gab.

"Aye O ish as" is what I hear. "Hey yo bitch ass" is what I interpreted the sounds to mean. "Hey do the dishes" is what was actually said to me.

Is this an aphasia or simply a sever recall issue (had bad memory recall issues when the injury was new but it's been almost 15 years and has gotten much better).

But the dysgraphia and mis written/read info is the worst. I missed a doc apt because I wrote down 115pm Thursday. Reminder texts said 115 Wednesday but I kept reading it as what I expected to see and not what I saw. Like the symbols stop meaning things individually. Or dysgraphia and simply translate vocal to written plain wrong.

If this is an aphasia would speech therapy help it or is it unnecessary since I maintain ASL I just lose hearing/vocal speech.

[tombhousetv]

"wernikay" can't you Americans say anything right? It's "vernickes"