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Aphasia is when a person has difficulty with their language or speech. It's usually caused by damage to the left side of the brain (for example, after a stroke). Symptoms of aphasia. People with aphasia often have trouble with the 4 main ways people understand and use language. These are: reading; listening; speaking; typing or writing
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If you’d like to work on improving your speech, and common issues associated with aphasia – such as using money; understanding numbers, dates and reading; and any short-term memory problems – our volunteers can give you one-on-one support in your own home.
Aphasia affects everyone differently, but most people will have difficulty expressing themselves or understanding things they hear or read. If aphasia has been caused by a sudden brain injury, such as a stroke or severe head injury, symptoms usually develop straight after the injury.
Aphasia is usually caused by stroke, but can also be caused by brain haemorrhage, head injury or tumours. Every 11 minutes three people in the UK have a stroke about a third of these people will have Aphasia. This amounts to over 367,000 people in the UK, a figure that increases by 20,000 each year.
The Aphasia Alliance is a coalition of key organisations from all over the UK that work in the field of aphasia. Aphasia (sometimes called dysphasia) is a communication disability that occurs when the language centres of the brain are damaged.
The recommended treatment for aphasia is usually speech and language therapy. Sometimes aphasia improves on its own without treatment. This treatment is carried out by a speech and language therapist (SLT). If you were admitted to hospital, there should be a speech and language therapy team there.
Aphasia and Communication. Communication problems affect more than 350,000 people in the UK following a stroke. Problems may include aphasia, dysarthria or apraxia. A person's ability to understand speech, speak, read, write and use numbers might be affected. Aphasia friendly stroke information.
