Comprehension can be affected with aphasia! How do I recognise a comprehension difficulty? *It may be difficult to understand spoken language: You may struggle to understand single words. * You may confuse ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. * You may be unable to match a spoken word to the object or picture it relates to. * You may find that you know what real objects are but can’t recognise and understand the same objects in photographs, cartoons or other pictures. * You may struggle to recognise and understand the written word: You may struggle to link written family names to the photograph or written words to objects/pictures. We will talk about reading difficulties soon. * It may be that your comprehension issues are at sentence level – you can understand single words but can’t understand sentences. You may also struggle to form correct sentences when you are speaking. * You may be unable to understand gestures and facial expressions. * You may struggle to know the meaning of words and so be unable to tell one thing apart from another (eg, understanding the difference between car and lorry or pin and needle. The term for this area of comprehension difficulty is semantics. * You may struggle to identify the category that a word belongs to eg, car is transport, apple is fruit, carrot is vegetable. Remember that someone with comprehension difficulties is extremely likely to have expressive language difficulties. If you are unable to identify or understand words, it’s almost impossible to be able to use words correctly in your own speech. Word finding difficulties are common. Speech containing jargon and mixed up words is also common. How do you support your comprehension difficulty? What helps?
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:19:33 +0000
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