Essay on Anthony, age 8 months, and his father are driving to the park when a heavy pipe falls off a passing truck and crushes the roof of their car. Both of them sustain serious injuries to the language areas of the brain. What predictions can be made about their future functioning, and why

Loss of the ability to understand speech or communication using language.

Explanation:

The left hemisphere of the brain more especially broca's area which is responsible for language and speech. The frontal lobe is the part of the brain that controls the ability to say words.

Injusries in this region can cause the ability to loose the understand and speak the words which is termed as apahsia in general and in case of damage to the broca is termed as the broca' aphasia. The father can still understand as he has prior language stored but anthony wont be able to understand or communicate.

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