Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is 'Stepping Away' from Acting, Family Reveals There are two main types — fluent, also called receptive, and non-fluent, or expressive aphasia. Those with fluent ...

Expressive aphasia is a language problem in which it's hard for someone to say or write their thoughts. It's a type of "non-fluent aphasia," meaning that speaking is more challenging than ...

In progressive non-fluent aphasia, affected individuals may need to make more effort with speech. They may use an incorrect word or incorrect grammar because their understanding of language ...

Broca’s aphasia is often referred to as nonfluent aphasia because of the halting and effortful quality of speech. Mixed non-fluent aphasia—this term is applied to patients who have sparse and ...

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a disorder of declining language that is a frequent presentation of neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Three variants of PPA ...

Phonemic or semantic errors can be observed and suggest nonfluent or fluent progressive aphasia, respectively. Patients who describe what a word means instead of providing the name are employing ...