by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Jun 23, 2025
Living with expressive aphasia can be overwhelming. Adjusting to your new reality and finding new ways to communicate is often exhausting. Like most medical conditions, expressive aphasia can be treated. These treatments are often tailored to help you improve your...
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Jun 10, 2025
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. It can affect different aspects of language processing and function...
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | May 25, 2025
Key Takeaways Expressive Aphasia has no specific treatment. The primary treatment for expressive aphasia is speech and language therapy, administered by speech-language pathologists. Speech and language therapy is done through various techniques which may help with...
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Apr 22, 2025
Imagine having an interesting conversation with family or friends where everyone is contributing freely, but you can’t. You understand what they say, and know what to say, but you struggle when you try to speak. You can only produce some incomplete phrases or...
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Apr 10, 2025
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...