Cognitive-Communication Disorder
Cognitive-communication disorders are problems with communication secondary to a cognitive deficit rather than a primary language or speech deficit.
A cognitive-communication disorder is a result from an impairment in one or more cognitive processes:
These processes are controlled by many cortical and subcortical structures within the brain. If someone is in a car accident and has a traumatic brain injury the frontal lobe might be damaged or if someone has a stroke in the middle of the night in the right hemisphere, it can cause processes to stop working.
A person with a cognitive-communication disorder may have difficulty paying attention to a conversation, staying on topic, remembering information, responding correctly, understanding jokes or metaphors, or following directions.
Cognitive-communication disorders vary in severity. Someone with a mild deficit may simply have difficulty concentrating in a loud environment, whereas a person with a more severe impairment may be unable to communicate at all.
A cognitive-communication disorder is a result from an impairment in one or more cognitive processes:
- Attention
- Memory
- Perception
- Insight and judgment
- Organization
- Orientation
- Language
- Processing speed
- Problem solving
- Reasoning
- Executive functioning
- Metacognition
These processes are controlled by many cortical and subcortical structures within the brain. If someone is in a car accident and has a traumatic brain injury the frontal lobe might be damaged or if someone has a stroke in the middle of the night in the right hemisphere, it can cause processes to stop working.
A person with a cognitive-communication disorder may have difficulty paying attention to a conversation, staying on topic, remembering information, responding correctly, understanding jokes or metaphors, or following directions.
Cognitive-communication disorders vary in severity. Someone with a mild deficit may simply have difficulty concentrating in a loud environment, whereas a person with a more severe impairment may be unable to communicate at all.
What causes this?
A cognitive-communication disorder can be a result from:
Cognitive-communication disorders can occur alone or in combination with other conditions, such as:
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Brain infection
- Brain tumor
- Degenerative disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- another form of dementia
Cognitive-communication disorders can occur alone or in combination with other conditions, such as:
- Dysarthria- Slurred speech
- Apraxia- Inability to move the face and tongue muscles correctly to form words
- Aphasia- Impaired language
