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A group of aphasia subtypes characterized by fluent speech, typically with impaired language comprehension and repetition. Utterance length is normal or extended. The patient’s spontaneous speech has normal prosody and grammar and is produced with normal effort. There is a reduction in content words, and paraphasic errors are common. Reading and writing typically mirror auditory comprehension and oral production.
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The fluent aphasias include Wernicke’s aphasia, transcortical sensory aphasia, conduction aphasia, and anomic aphasia. In all cases, spoken language is fluent with normal prosody and grammar and is produced with normal effort. The subtypes are distinguished by the patient’s ability to understand and repeat language, as shown in the Table 1.
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Turkstra, L.S. (2017). Fluent Aphasia. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_888-4
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