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What Causes Speech Impairments With Long Gaps Between Words?
My sister-inlaw aged 65 is experiencing a sudden onset of speech impairments ie slow halting speech with med to long gaps between words. Results of MRI is nad. Dr has suggested she has? unresolved grief issues following several deaths over recent years (say 12 years) ie parents/husband & sibling. Her brother, (my husband) suffered a dibilitating stroke 18mths ago and is in a long term care facility. Would an inability to cope with grief cause such an affect? Speech therapy over the last 5mths has done little to improve her condition. Thanks
Fri, 27 Nov 2015
is it really sudden onset? or you noticed now?
There is entity named "primary progressive aphasia"in which language is primarily affacted and it is a neurodegenerative disease. and in early stages MRI Brain can be normal or show some strophic changes. But before labe;;ing such doagnosis, she need full investigations, including psychiatric assessment.
There is entity named "primary progressive aphasia"in which language is primarily affacted and it is a neurodegenerative disease. and in early stages MRI Brain can be normal or show some strophic changes. But before labe;;ing such doagnosis, she need full investigations, including psychiatric assessment.
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