Patient with acquired speech disorder in clinical neuropsychology practice, a case study

Abstract

Speech disorders in adult patients are accompanying symptoms in a number of diagnostic categories, especially neurological (e.g. neurodegenerative diseases, stroke). The vast majority of Neuropsychologists will encounter speech disorders during their clinical practice. In this paper, we present a case report of a patient in whom speech disorders meet with other cognitive and behavioural symptoms.

Keywords

• neuropsychology
• cognitive deterioration
• executive functions
• frontotemporal dementia
• frontotemporal lobar degeneration