APHASIA

Aphasia is a disorder that affects your communication ability. It results from brain damage in the parts that affect how one processes language.

Causes

Aphasia occurs mainly from brain damage in the parts responsible for producing and processing language. For instance, it comes after a head injury, stroke, or brain surgery, which eventually develops into a brain tumor, neurological disorder, or brain infection. A damaged brain can again cause dysarthria, involving weak face and mouth muscles that slur your speech.

Signs and symptoms

Naming problems despite knowing how they are called; people, places, or objects.
Mixing words; instead of saying dog walker, they say wog dalker.
Trouble spelling and reading
Difficulty in understanding conversations
Inability to put words together properly to construct a sentence.
Inability to self-express
Trouble dealing with numbers or mathematics.

Treatment

Aphasia treatment deals mainly through language and communication ability improvement. It may entail developing alternative communication methods. Rehabilitation includes exercises, such as writing, repeating words, and listening. Learners are taught body language with gestures and facial expressions. Digital devices, including tablets, computers, and smartphones, also help with sentence creation and speech generation apps.

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Anastasia Filipenko

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Anastasia Filipenko is a health and wellness psychologist, dermatolist and a freelance writer. She frequently covers beauty and skincare, food trends and nutrition, health and fitness and relationships. When she's not trying out new skincare products, you'll find her taking a cycling class, doing yoga, reading in the park, or trying a new recipe.

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