Katie Strong, Ph.D., faculty member in Communication Sciences and Disorders received the State Clinical Achievement Award for Recent Clinical Achievement from the American Speech-Language-Hearing ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The ability to communicate is not a simple task for those with Aphasia. Many with the disorder often feel frustrated and isolated. Thanks to the efforts of one El Pasoan those ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

Approximately 40 percent of stroke survivors experience aphasia, a language impairment that can affect their speech production and comprehension as well as writing and reading. In half of these cases, ...

MIDLAND Twenty years ago, a vision was born out of the lifechanging events of Chuck Matthews and daughter, Kathryn Shelley. Chuck suffered a stroke that led to a terrifying loss of self-expression, ...

Mertro Robinson, Mike Janis, and Kerensa Boates have been living with and thriving despite a largely invisible impairment for years. Robinson of New Castle, Delaware, was a senior human resources ...

Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects someone’s ability to speak or understand speech. It also impacts how they understand written words and their ability to read and to write. It is ...

One day in 2011, Tom Broussard, Heller PhD’06, P’02, was walking with his wife not far from the Brandeis campus when he suddenly fell to the ground. Broussard, who was then associate dean for ...

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.

Aphasia and dysarthria both occur due to damage in the brain, but while aphasia causes difficulty in expressing and understanding speech, dysarthria causes difficulty controlling muscles necessary for ...

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 ...