A patient in the acute phase of a stroke who has been speaking distinctly begins to speak indistinctly and only with great effort, but is coherent. The nurse assesses:
1. stroke in evolution with dysarthria.
2. lacunar stroke with fluent aphasia.
3. complete stroke with global aphasia.
4. stroke in evolution with dyspraxia.
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As symptoms worsen, the CVA is still evolving. Speech that is coherent but difficult is dys-arthria rather than any type of aphasia. Dyspraxia is a motor impairment, not speech im-pairment.
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