Conduction aphasia and phonemic disorder

Conduction aphasia is usually described as a repetition impairment. Semiolo gy or pathophysiology cannot be explained with this definition. We report a single case particularly demonstrative. The patient showed spontaneous spe ech, denomination, repetition and reading impairments. Main errors were pho nemic paraphasia. No arthric disorder nor comprehension impairment was obse rved. Damage of supramarginalis gyrus and Wernicke's area was found. A cogn itive analysis suggested that the phonological buffer and the working memor y were impaired. Implication for rehabilitation, which included segmentatio n and semantisation associated to phonological training, is discussed. The course of the conduction aphasia was good and the patient was able to work again.