Sensory aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia and Wernicke’s aphasia, is characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and a severely impaired ability to understand spoken or written words.
Specific symptoms include: saying a lot of words that don’t make sense; not being able to understand the meaning of words; being able to speak well in long sentences, but they don’t make sense; using the wrong or meaningless words; not being able to comprehend the written word; and difficulty in writing.
Sensory aphasia is caused by damage to the part of the brain that controls language, and it can lead to loss of speech. If a patient is found to have one or more of the above symptoms, it is recommended that he or she should visit a specialist hospital as soon as possible and be treated under the guidance of a clinician.