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  2. Agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Refers to people who do not perceive any auditory information but whose hearing is intact. Environmental agnosia: It is the inability to locate a specific room or building that one is familiar with, as well as the inability to provide directions for how to arrive at a particular location. These individuals experience difficulty with learning ...

  3. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

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    People with damage to the left hemisphere of the brain are more likely to have anomic aphasia. Broca's area , the speech production center in the brain, was linked to being the source for speech execution problems, with the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), now commonly used to study anomic patients. [ 9 ]

  4. Auditory agnosia - Wikipedia

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    It is yet unclear whether auditory agnosia (also called general auditory agnosia) is a combination of milder disorders, such auditory verbal agnosia (pure word deafness), non-verbal auditory agnosia, amusia and word-meaning deafness, or a mild case of the more severe disorder, cerebral deafness. Typically, a person with auditory agnosia would ...

  5. Glossary of communication disorders - Wikipedia

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    Difficulty with language or the organized-symbol system used for communication in the absence of problems such as mental retardation, hearing loss, or emotional disorders. Speech Spoken communication. Speech disorder Any defect or abnormality that prevents an individual from communicating by means of spoken words.

  6. Misophonia - Wikipedia

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    Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues.These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses not seen in most other people. [8]

  7. Muteness - Wikipedia

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    In human development, muteness or mutism [1] is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech of others. [2] Mutism is typically understood as a person's inability to speak, and commonly observed by their family members, caregivers, teachers, doctors or speech and language pathologists.

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  9. Auditory verbal agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with this disorder lose the ability to understand language, repeat words, and write from dictation. Some patients with AVA describe hearing spoken language as meaningless noise, often as though the person speaking was doing so in a foreign language. [1] However, spontaneous speaking, reading, and writing are preserved.