June is Aphasia Awareness Month, a national campaign dedicated to increasing public awareness about the language disorder and recognizing people who are living with or caring for people with aphasia.

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 ...

(Bravo via Getty Images) Being able to communicate, from finding the right words to just being able to read and write, is something that most people take for granted. However, for those who suffer ...

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 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 ...

Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically – such as knife and cutter – or phonologically – such as knife and wife – are usually the first ...

Language therapy may help a person recover from aphasia. Some people may have a partial recovery, while others may recover fully. The time it takes to recover from aphasia can vary for each person.

Bruce Willis’ family has announced he will be stepping away from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia. "Our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been ...

Anomic aphasia causes problems in naming objects when speaking and writing. But it’s one of the mildest forms of aphasia, and there are treatments that can help. Anomic aphasia is a language disorder ...

Wernicke’s Aphasia is the loss of the ability to speak and understand language. It occurs when a small area the the left middle side of the brain called the Wernicke’s area is damaged. Share on ...

Aphasia is a condition characterized by the sudden loss of the ability to communicate. It typically occurs suddenly after a brain injury, most commonly after a stroke, but can also happen gradually as ...

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, ...