
Demystifying Aphasia
Communication is a critical aspect of our lives. We use words to communicate our emotions, instructions, thoughts, and ideas. To do this, we use several parts of our bodies, including our brains, nerves, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, and jaw.
When any of these parts are affected, your ability to form, process, or say words may be affected. However, this is often more significant when your brain is affected, congenitally or through a brain injury. A congenital anomaly or brain injury can cause several speech disorders including aphasia.
Key Takeaways:
Aphasia is a language disorder that temporarily or permanently affects your ability to process or form words when certain parts of your brain are injured. Depending on the severity of aphasia, there may also be reading and writing difficulties.
Aphasia appears in different forms, depending on which parts of the brain are affected. The three most common types are: Broca’s Aphasia, Wernicke’s Aphasia, and Global Aphasia.
There are several symptoms of aphasia. Some of the common symptoms of aphasia you may experience include:
- Problems understanding speech or other people’s conversations
- Struggling to repeat words or sentences
- Speaking incomplete or broken sentences – leaving out connecting words like “is.”
- Difficulty writing
- Difficulty remembering common words such as names of objects or animals.
- Saying long and incomprehensible sentences
- Making up words or adding irrelevant words to sentences.
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What if I’m failing treatment for Expressive Aphasia?
Like most medical conditions, expressive aphasia can be treated. These treatments are often tailored to help you improve your speech and language skills or help you find alternative ways to communicate.
What to do if I have both Expressive and Receptive Aphasia?
Aphasia is a language disorder resulting from injury or damage to your brain, typically the left hemisphere, causing difficulties understanding or communicating through spoken or written language.
What Are the Best Treatments for Expressive Aphasia?
Expressive aphasia often occurs after injury or damage to the language processing area of your brain – the Broca’s area. People with this condition may experience symptoms such as problems speaking, difficulty writing, and inability to say full sentences.
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