Aphasia : A Language Disorder after a Stroke

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What is Aphasia?

Aphasia often arises as a result of damage to Broca’s area or Wernicke’s area.

Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, these are parts of the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder impairs both the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage.

Who has aphasia?
Anyone can acquire aphasia, but most people who have aphasia are in their middle to late years. Men and women are equally affected. It is estimated that approximately 80,000 individuals acquire aphasia each year…

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A Speech Evaluation as Experienced from the Other Side of My Desk

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We wait in the lobby for about 10 minutes, my son, his wife and I. “David.” His name is “David.” I can’t consistently recall his name, but I always know who he is, that he is my son, and that I love him. Hopefully he knows that. His wife – I cannot for the life of me remember her name. Anyway, David, his wife and I wait in the lobby, and then a woman walks in. She has on a name badge, and I know, even before we make eye contact, that she is here for me.

“Mrs. Stewart?” she says in a voice that is too cheerful to be used in a hospital.

“Morning,” I answer.

The woman starts talking. Loudly. Quickly. Or maybe she isn’t so loud. Maybe it is the stroke – the way it has changed the way I perceive things. Everyone talks so fast now…

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