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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.

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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