Question:
Receptive aphasia: Receptive aphasia is characterized by tehinability to comprehend symbols in one or more fields (vision, audition,touch, etc.) without difficulty in expression and without paralysis ofthe peripheral sensory mechanism or of its primary cortical end-station,i.e. the cacarine corext, Heschl's transverse convolution, thepostcentral gyrus. These primary end-stations serve solely of rhtereception of afferent impulses, not for their interpretation......(snip) An individual with a lesion in the left occipital lobe may seewords but be undable to recognize them as words or otherwise interpretthem - word blindness. He may be able to feel objects and be unable todetermine their characteristics (asterognosis) or to recognize themeither for what they are or what they symbolize.

What's your opinions??? Can anyone give me some suggestions???

Answer: I wonder if the inability to apprehend dots on dice as ameaningful symbol of anything at all might be a form of receptive aphasia. I doubt whether this form of receptive aphasia has anything to do withright/leftbrain focal centers. I think there are various levels of severity ofreceptive aphasia. The level at which I can't figure out what the dotson dice mean is probably about a 9.5 on the scale.

On the other hand, there is a differential between aphasia generallyspeaking, and ideational apraxia. With ideational appraxia, which thankgoodness for me presents infrequently now, I can not figure out how toshave or how to put on my sweater! And there is massive confusionbetween what is in my right hand compared to what is in my left hand. For instance, when trying to shave, I rinsed off the can of shaving creamand tried to scrape my face with it. While I was doing that, I looked inmy left hand, and it was holding the razor. Of course, the next thing Idid was try to squirt the shaving cream in the razor onto the can in myright hand (I'm right handed). This was so fascinating that I had to setboth objects down and just walk away for a while laughing! But not toworry, this stuff hasn't happend since I stopped allowing doctors to doseme up with steroids instead of treating my disease.