People who experience aphasia may also develop symptoms due to frustration that results from their inability to adequately communicate. Such symptoms may include confusion, disorientation and depression. These symptoms may be more likely to occur among patients who do not live in a supportive environment or who do not interact with people who understand how to communicate with someone experiencing aphasia.

Additional symptoms that may accompany aphasia include:

• Verbal apraxia. A loss of motor functioning that can impact a person’s ability to speak. In addition to accompanying aphasia, verbal apraxia can sometimes mask the presence of the symptom.
  
  
• Dysarthria. Muscle weakness that impacts ability to speak. People with dysarthria may have slurred speech or problems pronouncing certain sounds.
  
  
• Memory loss. Aphasia that is caused by Alzheimer's disease or a traumatic head injury may be accompanied by some degree of memory loss. This may be temporary, permanent or degenerative.
  

  

• Impaired movement. Several symptoms relating to impaired movement or loss of movement may also occur with aphasia. For example, apraxia (the inability to perform purposeful movements) and ataxia (loss of coordination) may be caused by damage to the parts of the brain that can also cause aphasia. Problems with movement are especially likely to occur when aphasia is caused by widespread damage to the brain (e.g., due to stroke or head injury). For example, people who sustain frontal lobe damage may experience aphasia and paralysis of one side of their body.