Type and frequency of phonetic errors in aphasics: therapeutic aspects.

Fifty aphasics were studied in three separate groups: nonfluent Broca, fluent Wernicke and fluent anomics in order to form a therapeutic guide of their phonetic errors (omission substitution, addition, repeated phonemes, perseveration of phonemes belonging to the preceding word, reversed order, phonematic targetting and misplacing. Frequency of phonetic error was also assessed.