June is Aphasia Awareness month, and a man from Pulaski County is bringing awareness to aphasia, a language disorder, after ...

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Global aphasia results in severe disability in both understanding and producing speech. Conduction aphasia is when a person has good understanding but difficulty repeating words or sentences.

Global aphasia results from a major stroke that extensively affects the brain, causing cognition, comprehension and language difficulties. This type of aphasia usually has both receptive and ...

Global aphasia results from a major stroke that extensively affects the brain, causing cognition, comprehension and language difficulties. This type of aphasia usually has both receptive and ...

Patients with global aphasia, the most severe type, can only produce a few recognizable words, and they understand little spoken language, according to the association.

It often occurs after a sudden emergency, like a stroke (when the blood supply to the brain is disrupted) or head injury. But aphasia can also come on more slowly over time. It can affect people of ...

Global aphasia: Having trouble understanding others and difficulty saying words and sentences Expressive aphasia: The ability to understand what others are saying but having difficulty speaking or ...

According to the NIH, another type, global aphasia, can cause extensive damage across the language portions of the brain, leaving a person potentially unable to both speak and understand.