Aphasia, a language disorder often resulting from stroke or brain injury, profoundly impacts communication and quality of life. Recent advances in rehabilitation and language therapy have broadened ...

A speech therapy program self delivered daily by use of an application for tablet computer significantly improved language scores in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, in a new pilot study. Brielle ...

Aphasia has many forms, severities, and causes. Aphasia refers to all aspects of language, including talking, listening, reading, writing, and sign language. Aphasia does not refer to difficulty with ...

Therapy can improve language function and general cognition for seniors who have had aphasia for years, according to a recently published study. To reach their conclusions, researchers at the Research ...

Language disturbances (aphasia) are common after stroke and can manifest as difficulty identifying the correct word to use (semantic problems) and/or difficulty pronouncing words (phonemic problems).

When a person suddenly loses the ability to speak or to understand what others are saying, the hardships that cascade from that loss can be overwhelming - from the seemingly trite to the devastatingly ...

Dr. Suma Devanga (Speech Language Pathologist-Clinical Fellow) has secured WMU's 2018 Support for Faculty Scholars award to conduct research on aphasia treatment. The focus of this research is to ...

Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family said. Aphasia is a language-communication disorder that typically occurs after a stroke or brain injury. Willis ...