Human Communcation

2. • Verbal Behavior constitutes one of the most important
classes of human social behavior.
• Verbal Behavior is divided into several key areas:
• Emotion
• Learning and Memory
• Human communication
• Verbal behaviors is divided into two areas the one that
relays the information and the receives the information.

3. • Most of the portion of the left hemisphere (whether left
handed or right handed) is focus on speech.
• The perceptual function of the left hemisphere are more
specialized for the analysis of sequences of stimuli,
occurring one after the other.
• The perceptual functions of the right hemisphere are more
specialized for the analysis of space and geometric shapes
and forms, the elements of which are all present at the same
time.
• If the left hemisphere is damaged or malformed the right
hemisphere takes over its processes.
• Damage to the right hemisphere makes it problematic for a
person to read geometric maps or can lead to inability to
distinguish places.

5. • One aspect of speech is being able to comprehend what you
are trying to say.
• Broca’s Aphasia is characterized by slow, laborious and non-
fluent speech. Or simply being unable to fully relay what you
mean to say.
• This disorder is due to a damage in the inferior left frontal
lobe (broca’s area) whether due to stroke or brain trauma.
• People with this disorder are capable of supplying content
words such as: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, but not
functional words such as: a, the, some, in, or about.
• People with this disorder may not be able to speak more
grammatically but they can comprehend language all the same
as normal people do.

6. • There are two major deficits that best describes Broca’s
Aphasia:
• Agrammatism which refers to a patient’s difficulty in using
grammatical constructions.
• Anomia which refers to a word-finding difficulty or inability to
remember the appropriate word to describe an object, action or
attribute.
• Articulation difficulties which refers to mispronouncing words
and often altering the sequence of sounds.
• People with this disorder may be able to read written
words but is limited.

8. • Recognizing spoken words is a complex perceptual task
that relies on memories of sequences of sound which is
in the middle and posterior portion of the superior
temporal gyrus of the left hemisphere, the Wernicke’s
area.
• Wernicke’s Aphasia is a form of aphasia that is
characterized by poor speech comprehension and fluent
but meaningless speech.
• When you listen to a person with this disorder he/she
uses correct grammar but does not usually use content
words and the words that are put together does not
necessarily make sense.

9. • Pure Word Deafness
• Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
• Conduction Aphasia
• Anomic Aphasia

11. • Pure Alexia
• Dyslexia
• Acquired
• Developmental
• Surface Dyslexia
• Phonological Dyslexia
• Direct Dyslexia
• Phonological Dysgraphia
• Orthographic Dysgraphia