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Cassie's mother suffered a stroke. Since then, she sometimes says strange things, such as, "i need to go to the store to buy some canaries," when she means to say that she needs groceries. Cassie's mother seems to be suffering from

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I believe the answer is: Wernicke's aphasia

Wernicke's aphasia refers to a form of illness that make the victim unable to properly decipher both writing and verbal lanugage. This abnormalities occurs when we somehow damage our brain in the broca's area, which took part in the left hemisphere of the brain.

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