What is Conduction Aphasia?
Conduction aphasia is a language disorder characterized by frequent phonemic paraphasias with attempts at self-correction, impaired verbatim repetition, a deficit in phonological short-term memory, and naming difficulties in the presence of otherwise fluent and grammatical speech output (Buchsbaum, Baldo, Okada, Berman, Dronkers, D’Esposito, and Hickok, 2011).
Characteristics:
•Good intonation
•Good auditory comprehension
•Difficulty with word finding
•Paraphasic errors (more phonemic/literal type)
•Hesitations in speech but fluent
•Good recognition of errors with attempts to self-correct
•Use of complex syntactic structures in spontaneous speech
•Marked difficulty with repetition (especially with multisyllabic words and longer sentences)