a characteristic feature of the speech of some patients with anomic aphasia, the main characteristic displayed by other patients may be periods of slow and halting speech as they search for the correct word. Now who does that remind you of? don't wish to be coy, or hurtful.
For instance, when shown a picture, a patient might say, “It’s a, ummm, uhhh, a, a, a … I know what it is, it’s a … Aww hell, it’s there but I just can’t get it.” Such hesitancy may be so frequent
Not surprisingly, patients with anomic aphasia benefit greatly from cueing, such as providing the first sound of the target word.
Low-frequency words are typically more difficult for a patient with anomic aphasia to retrieve and produce than frequently used words. It is very common for proper names to be more difficult to retrieve than common nouns, and common nouns are often more difficult to retrieve than adjectives or verbs. Thus, both the grammatical function of a word and its frequency can affect word retrieval in patients with anomic aphasia.
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