Aphasia is a communication disorder that makes it hard to use words. It can affect your speech, writing, and ability to understand language. Aphasia results from damage or injury to parts of the brain ...

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 ...

Stroke and brain injury manifest in several ways, sometimes obviously – in difficulty enunciating words or retrieving them in conversation – sometimes subtly. My mother’s stroke left her with pure ...

Living with aphasia has been compared to living in a country where you don’t speak the language. Gestures, sign language or other forms of communication may not be much help. And the people who want ...

Action-movie star Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with the brain disorder called aphasia, his family said Wednesday. The condition affects about 2 million Americans, ...

Expressive aphasia — which includes Broca’s aphasia — is when a person understands speech but has difficulty speaking fluently. Some people can say short phrases but leave out small words such as “the ...

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 ...

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, ...