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Conduction aphasia also called associative aphasia is a relatively rare form of aphasia. An acquired language disorder it is characterized by intact auditory comprehension fluent (yet paraphasic) speech production but poor speech repetition. They are fully capable of understanding what they are hearing but they will have difficulty repeating what was actually said. Patients will display frequent errors during spontaneous speech substituting or transposing sounds.

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