When a CVA client understands questions but fails to respond verbally correctly, they are said to have which type of aphasia?

The situation described, where a client understands questions but fails to respond verbally, indicates that the individual has a challenge with expressing themselves verbally, despite understanding what is being asked. This condition aligns with expressive aphasia, also known as Broca's aphasia. Individuals with expressive aphasia often struggle to find the right words or form coherent sentences, even though their comprehension of language remains intact. This is a common result of damage to the Broca's area of the brain, which is responsible for speech production.

In contrast, receptive aphasia, would involve difficulties in understanding language rather than producing it. Agnostic and non-verbal do not accurately describe the specific type of language impairment characterized by the ability to comprehend questions without the ability to speak fluently. Thus, expressive aphasia is the correct term to refer to the client's inability to respond verbally even though they understand the questions being posed.