Discussion
An impairment of language function due to localized cerebral damage which leads to difficulty in understanding and/or producing linguistic forms is called
Answer: A
The impairment is called aphasia.
Aphasia is a disorder of language caused by damage to particular areas of the brain, often after a stroke or head injury. Depending on the area affected, the person has difficulty understanding language, producing it, or both, as with Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia.
Dyslexia is a learning difficulty in reading, dyscalculia is a learning difficulty with numbers, and dysarthria is a motor speech disorder in which the muscles used for speaking are weak; the language itself is intact.
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