Aphasia is a disorder that affects a person's ability to retrieve language. It's as if their brain's word cabinet has fallen over and mixed their words around, resulting in varying levels and forms of ...

In 1983, Howard Blatt was a middle-aged married father working as an electrical engineer at MIT when he collapsed in his kitchen. He'd had a stroke. That health catastrophe left him with a paralyzed ...

Glasgow stroke survivor Eileen Smith and CHSS call for greater aphasia awareness after Scottish Parliament debate highlights ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

June marks Aphasia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about aphasia, a language disorder that affects communication abilities following brain damage, often due to stroke. Aphasia ...

JUDY CRANE KNOWS SHE’S A WALKING MIRACLE. WHEN YOU GET GO THROUGH AN AORTIC DISSECTION AS WELL AS A STROKE AND YOU’RE STILL HERE, YOU KIND OF GO, YOU KNOW, THERE MUST BE A REASON WHY AFTER HER STROKE ...

MARIETTA – Many people finish school, look and settle into jobs and careers, land promotions, get married, travel and have children in their 20s. And in 2011, Marietta native Christine Huggins was no ...

A smartwatch app designed to measure social interactions of hospitalized stroke survivors may enable new treatments to ...

It’s hard to put words into the world right now. It can seem like they’re not big enough to say what we mean or that we live in a moment so on edge that words can feel dangerous. But in my case, there ...