What IS Aphasia?

Do you know that over 84 percent of all Americans have never heard of the word “aphasia”.

Do you know that over 2 million people in America are living with aphasia?

Aphasia is a chronic disorder that impacts a person’s ability to communicate.

It is caused by damage to the part of the brain that processes language.

Aphasia can impact speaking, reading, writing, mathematics, and comprehension/processing of language.

There are different symptoms and different levels of severity with aphasia. Therefore it is very individual to each person with aphasia as it depends on the size and the location of the brain injury.

Aphasia is mostly caused by stroke, traumatic brain injury, and even disease.