When ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq in 2006, he suffered severe head injuries that caused him to lose his ability to recall and produce common words — a condition ...

After a stroke, people can lose the ability to speak or even understand language. This can be treated with therapy, but if therapy is started too late it might not work. Now, researchers in Finland ...

Stephen Wilson, an assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, and a team of researchers are making breakthroughs in how the brain processes speech. While scientists have known for ...

Aphasia is a disorder that results in loss of language, usually due to damage to the parts of the brain responsible for language. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other ...

Aphasia has many forms, severities, and causes. Aphasia refers to all aspects of language, including talking, listening, reading, writing, and sign language. Aphasia does not refer to difficulty with ...

Given the connections between frontal and temporal regions, these anatomical pathways may serve to integrate sensory information with motor planning, preparation and action areas that is crucial for ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that can affect a person’s use of language. It can impact their ability to speak, to understand, to read and to write, but not necessarily all of these. It often happens ...

The standard of care for patients with aphasia has been intense behavioral therapy - reading and repeating words and sounds. But a new area is opening up that looks at medication to augment the ...

Impairments in language and communication skills represent the core diagnostic features of autism. Individuals with autism often show delays in language acquisition; some with deficits as severe as ...