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Symptoms of Aphasia
Children in their earliest stages of development produce abbreviated sentences that are missing those functional pieces linguists compare this developmental stage to the genera of language that people used to write telegrams years ago. Aphasia symptoms have no relationship to any loss in motor skills, intellectual abilities, hearing or physical impairment of language articulators like the tongue or vocal chords. When damaged, some patients may retain the ability to understand both spoken and written language, but lose the ability to speak or write themselves.
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