Differences Between Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia

Human beings occasionally suffer bad damage to particular parts of their brains. Unfortunately, these injuries may lead to major failure of speech production, understanding language and comprehension which most of the patients suffer it permanently. This impairment is called Aphasia. Gayle (2012) states that people with aphasia fail to understand sentence comprehension although it is a simple sentence. She also mentioned that aphasia patients also have difficulty in reading and understanding speeches. According to Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams (2011), aphasia is a scientific term used to explained language disorder due to brain injuries caused by diseases or trauma. In other words, aphasia involves partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas due to brain damage. Fromkin et. al (2011) point out that Broca’s aphasia is resulted from injury to the frontal part of the brain that controls language while Wernicke’s aphasia is resulted from damage to the back portion of the language dominant side of the brain. According to Fromkin et. al (2011), Broca’s aphasia which also known as motor aphasia, agrammatic aphasia and non-fluent aphasia was discovered by Paul Broca in 1864 when he did an experiment to eight patients who had language disorder because of brain damage. Paul Broca found out that all injuries were at the front part of the left side of the brain functions to control language. Therefore, the impairment was called after his name. Meanwhile, Fromkin et. al (2011) add that Wernicke’s aphasia also has some other names that associated with the deficit which known as fluent aphasia, sensory aphasia or jargon aphasia. The name was taken after the founder of the affliction, Carl Wernicke. “In 1874, Carl Wernicke has presented another paper on patients who diagnosed with injury to the back part of left side of the brain. His findings confirmed the results by Greek physicians before him who had associated loss of speech with paralysis on the right side of the

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