People with fluent aphasia may have a steady flow of speech filled with jargon and made-up words. They also experience paraphasias — substituting a different sound or word for the intended word.

People with fluent aphasia are able to produce connected speech, but it may lack meaning. Types of fluent aphasias include: -- Anomic aphasia. This is considered the most common form of aphasia.

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Aphasia can affect people of any age, though most who are diagnosed are “middle-aged or older,” according to the NIH. Many forms of aphasia fall within two categories: fluent and nonfluent.

Those with fluent aphasia are capable of speaking in lengthy sentences, but often those sentences will include unnecessary words or gibberish. In addition, they will struggle with comprehending ...

Expressive aphasia, also known as Broca’s or non-fluent aphasia, allows a person to understand what people are saying but makes it difficult for the person to speak themselves.

There are several types of aphasia, including global, Broca’s, Wernicke’s, primary progressive, anomic and mixed non-fluent aphasia. Signs of aphasia include having trouble finding words ...

Patients with non-fluent aphasia speak in short, halting, telegraphic sentences and have trouble forming their words. However, they often understand language relatively well.