He can't understand or create words, but still has the ability to discern different cues from intonation and context, so his speech sounds like normal words and he can perhaps understand what he's being asked about, that's the nature of Wernicke's aphasia. He could count up to a couple numbers because counting is a more automatic function of language, but he had to have been coaxed into it from some other cue from the interviewer (maybe she held up her hand or something.) portsy101 2 weeks ago 2
He can't understand or create words, but still has the ability to discern different cues from intonation and context, so his speech sounds like normal words and he can perhaps understand what he's being asked about, that's the nature of Wernicke's aphasia. He could count up to a couple numbers because counting is a more automatic function of language, but he had to have been coaxed into it from some other cue from the interviewer (maybe she held up her hand or something.)
ReplyDeleteportsy101 2 weeks ago 2
....surreal as grandfatherly fish....
ReplyDeleteyeah, but did you laff?
ReplyDeletecause if you did you're going straight to hades :D