ABSTRACT
Language abilities profoundly affect our capacity to participate in most everyday activities and engage in meaningful relationships. Consequently, a language impairment has a significant adverse effect on a person’s quality of life. Language impairment is a core feature of the disorder known as primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Currently, three distinct variants of PPA are recognised: (a) semantic (svPPA), (b) non-fluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA), and (c) logopenic (lvPPA) (Gorno-Tempini et al.,
Address correspondence to: Regina Jokel, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M6A 2E1. E-mail: rjokel@research.baycrest.org
Aphasiology, 2014 Vol. 28, Nos. 8-9, 1038-1068, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2014.899306
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CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA
2011). These variants are differentiated by the fluency, grammatical correctness, and rate of connected speech, as well as by the status of the semantic (i.e., word meaning) and phonological (i.e., word form and sound) stores.
