Symptoms previously considered ‘defective’ in patients with language disorder may actually be adaptive

Individuals with a language disorder called non-fluent aphasia—which may result from a stroke, head injury, or neurodegeneration find it difficult to speak in complex sentences, and they have various word-level abnormalities, including using fewer verbs and fewer function words such as pronouns and prepositions.

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