The Importance Of Language And Effective Language

Language is a complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols used for thought and expression. Language can be expressed orally, through writing or pictured symbols, or manually (e.g., sign language) (Kaderavek, 2015). This can be divided into two categories: receptive language and expressive language. Receptive language is the ability to comprehend or understand language that is either read or heard while expressive language is the ability to use words, gestures, and writing to convey meaning and message to other people.

Her language skills were assessed using the Western Aphasia Battery-revised (WAB-R) adapted in Filipino. WAB-R is a diagnostic tool used to diagnose linguistic and nonlinguistic skills most frequently affected by aphasia.

The activation for the high imageable words is more stable than for the low imageable words as seen in her responses. Also, word frequency may have affected her ability to recognize the words presented. Like for the real objects, ‘lapis’ and ‘suklay’ are more imageable and more frequently used than ‘posporo.’ It’s the same with forms; it’s easier to recognize ‘bilog’ and ‘bituin’ than ‘parisukat’ and ‘tatsulok’ because of frequency effect. People are more likely to say ‘square’ and ‘triangle’ than ‘parisukat’ and ‘tatsulok’.

Sequential Commands

She was asked to perform a series of commands given in sentences of increasing length and complexity. She was unable to do the first command which was ‘itaas ang kamay.’ She had no response for the next three commands.

Repetition

The client was asked to repeat words of increasing length. The client had no difficulty imitating 2-syllable words such as ‘aso’ and ‘saging’ and 4-syllable words such as ‘takipsilim.’ She started to have phonemic errors at 6-syllable words. She produced ‘bukang-liwayway’ as /bUkaj lIwajwaj/, ‘ika-apat na bahagi’ as /ikaapat na baagi/, and ‘isang libo siyam na raan’ as ‘isang libo nasaan’.

Naming Real objects were presented to the client and he was asked to name the objects. When given phonemic cues, she was able to name tasa, suklay, lapis, and bulaklak. She had no response for kandila.