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Cognition

Cognitive-Communication Disorder

Cognitive-communication disorders are problems with communication secondary to a cognitive deficit rather than a primary language or speech deficit.
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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.
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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:
  • 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
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