Aphasia
People with aphasia may have difficulty reading, writing, speaking and understanding language. The condition can develop when areas of your brain that process language are damaged by stroke or a traumatic brain injury.
Possible Signs
- Difficult to comprehend verbal language
- Difficult to comprehend sentences with complex grammatical structures
- Difficult to understand figurative language
- Difficult to read and write written language
- Difficult to aware speech errors
- Difficulty in word finding
- Produce mainly short phrases only
- Produce agrammatical sentences
- Sound or word substitution
- Use of jargons