Sentence Comprehension in a Patient with Mild Cognitive Impairment of the Amnestic Type: a Case Report

Abstract

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) threatens a large percentage of the elderly population worldwide. Symptoms can also include language and speech difficulties. This article aims at speech/language comprehension difficulties at the sentence level in people with MCI, with the use of a case study. Sentence comprehension was examined in a female patient with amnestic MCI, by means of the Czech version of the Sentence Comprehension Test. Impaired comprehension of all sentence types was found, with a high need for repetition, as well as the influence of sentence complexity. The results show that limited cognitive resources are a reason for insufficient linguistic information processing. Thus, therapy focused on cognitive training will also improve or maintain language.

Keywords

• mild cognitive impairment
• alzheimer's disease
• language comprehension
• sentence comprehension
• sentence comprehension test
• case study