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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

聾啞者失語症：病例報告

Abstract

Congenitally deaf persons don't have the ability to communicate verbally due to profound hearing impairment. Thus, they rely on words and sign language to communicate with others. Physicians tend to pay less attention to people who can't communicate verbally. We report the case of a 45-year-old congenitally deaf man who developed a left frontotemporal brain tumor. He was right-handed. As a result of the tumor, he lost both the ability to form words and the sign language he had relied upon to communicate with others. He recovered some ability to communicate 6 months after surgery. He was able to use words to communicate better than with sign language. He was able to receive information better than to express it by words or sign language. Unfortunately, recurrence of the tumor halted his improvement.Despite radically different input/output modes, deaf persons have the same common patterns of cerebral specialization for language functions as do persons with normal hearing. Aphasia in congenitally deaf persons is analogous to that in persons with normal hearing, and loss of language reception and expression results from pathology in the dominant hemisphere. The effects and the improvement in aphasia in a deaf person depend on the individual lesion.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

123

Last Page

130

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