Imagine for a moment being trapped in your own mind. Unable to form words, unable to understand others. Unable to successfully have your most basic needs met. For individuals with aphasia, this is how ...

Communication classes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology aid the progress of participants with communication disorders in a ...

Expressive aphasia can happen after brain damage and may affect your ability to speak or write. A few signs include using short phrases and substituting words with similar sounds or meanings.

Aphasia affects about 2 million Americans. It’s more common than Parkinson’s Disease, cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. According to the National Aphasia Association (NAA, nearly 180,000 Americans ...

Approximately 40 percent of stroke survivors experience aphasia, a language impairment that can affect their speech production and comprehension as well as writing and reading. In half of these cases, ...

Aphasia affects two million Americans, according to the National Aphasia Association (NAA), but a 2016 survey from the organization found that less than nine percent of respondents knew what the ...

Mertro Robinson, Mike Janis, and Kerensa Boates have been living with and thriving despite a largely invisible impairment for years. Robinson of New Castle, Delaware, was a senior human resources ...

June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, and more than 2.5 million Americans – including actor Bruce Willis and country music star Randy Travis – suffer from the communication impairment. Aphasia ...

Aphasia and dysarthria both occur due to damage in the brain, but while aphasia causes difficulty in expressing and understanding speech, dysarthria causes difficulty controlling muscles necessary for ...

Aphasia is a language disorder. It affects how you speak and understand language. People with aphasia might have trouble putting the right words together in a sentence, understanding what others say, ...