Afferent Aphasia Motor: Similarity and Difference Between Luria’s Aphasia and a Case Study

Abstract

Erlania do Carmo FreitasCollege Northeast Independent (FAINOR), Brazil Luria discusses the relationship between the symptoms observed and the various locations of injury. This work aims to analyze the similarities and differences between the language manifestations described by Luria in afferent aphasia motor as a case study of injury in the left temporoparietal area. The survey was conducted from the hospitalization of the participant, diagnosed with brain tumor. For the evaluation of linguistic manifestations of the individual, a recording of a spontaneous speech section between the researcher and the participant was made. After evaluating, some language changes described in the literature as possible classification of the type of aphasia were found; among them are oral apraxia and articulatory confusion between similar sounds, but different linguistic manifestations of the classification described by Luria were also found. Throughout this paper, we can see that there are many conflicts in regard to the classification of aphasia, both with regard to location issues such as the direct and expected relationship for their linguistic manifestations. Thus, this research aimed to demonstrate the importance of careful evaluation regarding, first, the subject and its linguistic manifestations, demonstrating that these productions are not always compatible with the injured area.