Abby Foster receives funding from La Trobe University and the Centre of Research Excellence in Ear & Hearing Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children. She is an affiliate of the Centre ...

Aphasia is a disorder that results in loss of language, usually due to damage to the parts of the brain responsible for language. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other ...

A chilling case that my team and I will never forget involved a customer service representative whose access to long-term disability (LTD) benefits for global aphasia was cut off at the two-year mark.

People who have aphasia can have trouble with things like speaking, reading, or listening. Research estimates about 1 million people in the United States are living with aphasia. There are two ...

Sarah Northcott receives funding from The Stroke Association. This research was funded by the Jack and Averil (Mansfield) Bradley Fellowship Award for Stroke Research. Aphasia can be a difficult and ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects communication. It results from brain damage, often after a stroke. Treatment aims to restore a person’s language and communication abilities as much as ...

The exchange of words, speaking and listening in conversation, may seem unremarkable for most people, but communicating with others is a challenge for people who have aphasia, an impairment of ...

Anomic aphasia is a language disorder that involves difficulty finding or recalling the word a person wants to use. A person’s language comprehension, grammar, and fluency tend to remain intact.

Almost 40 million people in the United States have a disability, according to 2015 U.S. Census figures, but the language used around disabilities can be a mystery, fraught with acronyms and legalese.

The day before Thanksgiving in 2009, college student Drew Sperling collapsed in his San Luis Obispo apartment. He was 21 years old and having a stroke. Instead of meeting their son that day for golf, ...