Language impairment (expressive)

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Verbal_impairment

UMLS: C0566027

Description: Here we mean that the patient’s use of language is impaired, or the patient speaks incoherently. Here we want to encompass language problems that are not described as dysphasia/aphasia. People with neurocognitive orders often have impairments in language expression described as ‘Expressive aphasia (non-fluent, agrammatic)’. This is defined as: “People with this pattern of aphasia may understand what other people say better than they can speak. People with this pattern of aphasia struggle to get words out, speak in very short sentences and omit words. A person might say, "Want food" or "Walk park today." A listener can usually understand the meaning, but people with this aphasia pattern are often aware of their difficulty communicating and may get frustrated”. We do not distinguish between aphasias caused by cerebrovascular accidents and neurodegenerative diseases or other causes.

We scored as TRUE: language impairment; linguistic disturbances; incoherent/unintelligible talking/speech; word fluency difficulties; impaired repetition; echolalia; paraphasia’s. We also scored as TRUE: mutism, poverty of speech; patient didn’t talk anymore. We also scored as TRUE: speech difficulties; slow speech. We did NOT score: motoric speaking difficulties; word-finding problems, which were scored separately as ‘Dysarthria’, and ‘Word-finding difficulties’, respectively. We did NOT score: impaired comprehension; communication problems. These are scored separately as ‘Impaired comprehension’ and ‘Communication impairment’, respectively. We did NOT score: learning; ‘was not able to learn’ new things. This is not scored anywhere. We also did NOT score: sentences that are highly ambiguous. Use your best judgement. If in doubt, do NOT score. PLEASE NOTE: Patients with items scored under this parameter may fit a classification of ‘Expressive aphasia’. However, given the subjective descriptions provided in the NBB reports, we are unable to accurately classify the different forms of aphasia, it could also mean comprehensive aphasia. Furthermore, we cannot make any distinction between primary progressive aphasias and other forms of aphasia. Therefore, interpretation should be made with caution.

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Disturbances_of_language_and_speech

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Disturbances_of_language_and_speech