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  2. Agraphia - Wikipedia

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    Receptive aphasia is an example of fluent aphasia. [4] Those who have agraphia with nonfluent aphasia can write brief sentences but their writing is difficult to read. Their writing requires great physical effort, lacks proper syntax, and often has poor spelling. Expressive aphasia is an example of nonfluent aphasia. [3]

  3. Writing lines - Wikipedia

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    An example of a sentence assigned as punishment: "From tomorrow I will not speak Dzongkha in the class" Writing lines is a form of punishment handed out to misbehaving students by people in a position of authority at schools. It is a long-standing form of school discipline and is frequently satirised in popular culture.

  4. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    All of these lead to a difference in processing efficiency, which is often caused by damage to a cortical region in the brain (in receptive aphasia, for example, the lesion is in or near Wernicke's area); lesion location is the most important determining factor for all aphasic disorders, including paraphasia – the location of the lesion can ...

  5. Expressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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    For example, many individuals who have expressive aphasia struggle with Wh- sentences. "What" and "who" questions are problematic sentences that this treatment method attempts to improve, and they are also two interrogative particles that are strongly related to each other because they reorder arguments from the declarative counterparts. [ 58 ]

  6. Transcortical motor aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Damage in the watershed region does not directly harm the areas of the brain involved in language production or comprehension; instead, the damage isolates these areas from the rest of the brain. [1] If there is damage to the frontal lobe, executive functions related to language use are often affected. Executive functions relevant to language ...

  7. Language disorder - Wikipedia

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    Aphasia is a language disorder that is caused by damage to the tissue in the language center in the brain. [12] The type of incident that most often causes Aphasia is stroke but can also occur due to traumatic brain injury, infection, tumors, and degenerative brain disorders.

  8. Damage - Wikipedia

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    Damage "does not necessarily imply total loss of system functionality, but rather that the system is no longer operating in its optimal manner". [1] Damage to physical objects is "the progressive physical process by which they break", [2]: 1. and includes mechanical stress that weakens a structure, even if this is not visible. [2]: ix.

  9. Damages - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this include physical or emotional pain and suffering, loss of companionship, loss of consortium, disfigurement, loss of reputation, impairment of mental or physical capacity, hedonic damages or loss of enjoyment of life, etc. [26] This is not easily quantifiable, and depends on the individual circumstances of the claimant. Judges ...