Throughout the 2012-13 academic year, the Aphasia Communication Enhancement Program has continued to provide individual and group speech, language, and cognitive therapy services to persons with ...

Gesture communication is increasingly recognised as a vital compensatory strategy in aphasia rehabilitation. Aphasia, most commonly arising from stroke-related brain injuries, impairs verbal ...

A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...

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 ...

The Aphasia Communication Group is a treatment program designed for adults who have aphasia as a result of a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other neurological condition. This group program accepts ...

Medical: loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) Aphasia, the cruel illness resulting from a stroke ...

Aphasia, most commonly caused by having a stroke, is a language disorder that impacts a person’s ability to understand and express language. The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences (CDS ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that can affect a person’s use of language. It can impact their ability to speak, to understand, to read and to write, but not necessarily all of these. It often happens ...

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, ...