Word Retrieval And Word Finding Deficit in the Cases of Dementia

Language is the ability to encode ideas into words or symbols for communication to others and involves speaking comprehending reading and writing. The real problematic situation with patients suffering from Dementia is the area of word finding and word retrieval. The present book presents an insight to the researchers scholars and students working in the areas of Neurolinguistics particularly Dementia and Alzheimer''s of various types.The book guides them in all the aspects of language and its development in dementia patients so that they can help them and treat them with an early identification and appropriate intervention strategies for them and in their linguistic abilities. The examination of language and dementia can profit greatly from the increasing availability of sophisticated imaging technology along with the recent development of diagnostic guidelines and the language tests designed and proposed in the book for these patients. KEY FEATURES: 1.Word Finding Deficits in the Cases of Dementia. 2. Language Tests designed to help the dementia patients recover their partial or complete language loss. 3.Case Studies to develop further insight into the problem.