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Agnosia - ANSWER-impaired ability to recognize what is "sensed" in spite of intact sensory function Aphasia - ANSWER-a disruption in using and/or understanding language following neurological injury or disease. Apraxia - ANSWER-the inability to carry out representational motor acts on instruction due to difficulty comprehending the instruction or neuromuscular weakness or discoordination. Apraxia of Speech - ANSWER-Difficulty volitionally planning, programming, and positioning speech articulators for the production of speech sound sequences Broca's Aphasia - ANSWER-acquired language disorder characterized by nonfluent language output and relatively spared language comprehension. Conduction Aphasia - ANSWER-aphasia characterized by disproportionately significant expressive problems during repetition, but with relatively good comprehension, fluent spontaneous speech, and naming deficits Fluency - ANSWER-in aphasia, refers to phrase length in the speech production of patients, as well as speech melody, articulatory agility, speech rate, and grammatical form neologisms - ANSWER-in aphasia, the substitution of non-words for intended words Paraphasias - ANSWER-Word substitutions constituting errors in naming in aphasias