41. SMASH - Sutton & Merton Aphasia Self Help Group Sutton and Merton aphasia Self Help Group. Includes information about aphasia, events and the group. http://www.smash-uk.org

@import url(styles/layout.css); Skip navigation About us Aphasia What we do ... Where we are About us The official opening of SMASH in 1994 SMASH aphasia It was set up in July 1993 to provide a friendly safe and supportive environment for people with a language disorder. The group meets every other Monday , from until We have close contact with Speakability - a national charity campaigning for people with language disorders. We attend their Conferences and Regional Forums Our Secretary is a Trustee of Connect - The communication disability network . He and other members of the group have been involved in working parties and therapy groups at Connect. About aphasia Top of page Registered charity number 295094 Page last updated : 24th February 2003 Designed by TinnedFruit

42. Family Adjustment To Aphasia Family Adjustment to aphasia. Richard S. was a senior manager at a smallcompany and next in line for a vice presidency. He also had aphasia. http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Family-Adjustment-to-Aphasia.htm

@import url( /styles/importmenuP.css ); Skip to: content navigation Our site's pages are optimized for Web browsing software that supports current Web standards, as established by the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3c.org/) . Content is accessible from older or less standards-compliant technologies, but its presentation will not be identical to visitors with standards-compliant software. Read more on our site's changes and accessiblity. My Account Find a Professional Shop Logged in as: Guest Login Search for: ADVANCED SEARCH Home For the Public Speech Language and Swallowing ... Disorders and Diseases Family Adjustment to Aphasia Richard S. was a senior manager at a small company and next in line for a vice presidency. His wife worked as a free-lance writer. They had three active teenagers. Life had its ups and downs, but overall it was quite comfortablehappy marriage, nice home, occasional travel, and a close circle of friends. One night that all changed. Richard had a massive stroke that left him with a paralyzed right arm and leg. He also had aphasia. He could not speak intelligibly, and he understood little of what people said to him. He had difficulty reading and writing. He also had trouble swallowing. When his children visited him in the hospital, he couldn' t follow their activities and busy schedules. He felt so removed from them. Worries Sara was worried about Richard' s health, but she had other worries, too. How would the mortgage be paid? Would she be able to work, raise the children, and assume her husband' s household responsibilities? Who would she rely on? Richard always gave her good support and advice, but he couldn' t now. What about the physical intimacy they enjoyed? Sara felt she was being selfish, but she also felt overwhelmed, alone, and angry that this had happened to her. She even blamed Richardif only he had watched his diet and exercised more!

43. The Aphasia Clinic Division of the Adult SpeechLanguage Clinic in Tucson. Services include individual and group aphasia therapies. http://w3.arizona.edu/~aphasia/

About the Aphasia Clinic The University of Arizona Aphasia Clinic was established in 1991 to meet the needs of individuals with aphasia . The Aphasia Clinic is part of the University of Arizona Adult Speech-Language clinic. It is located on the fourth floor of the Speech and Hearing Sciences Building on the main campus of the University of Arizona Clinical services include diagnostic evaluations, individual aphasia therapy, and group aphasia therapy. These services are provided by clinical faculty in collaboration with graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in speech-language pathology. All Aphasia Clinic faculty are certified as clinically competent (CCC-SLP) by the American Speech-Language-Hearing-Association. The Aphasia Clinic is affiliated with the Aphasia Research Project, which conducts research about aphasia, related disorders, and their treatment. Some patients may be invited to participate in ongoing research projects. Meeting the Needs of People with Aphasia and Their Families.

44. EMedicine - Aphasia : Article By Daniel H Jacobs, MD aphasia aphasia is an acquired disorder of language due to braindamage. Related syndromes may coexist with aphasia or exist http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic437.htm

(advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Patient Education Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Neurology Behavioral Neurology And Dementia Aphasia Last Updated: May 6, 2004 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: disorder of language, language disorder, language dysfunction, inability to speak, brain damage, brain injury, left cerebral hemisphere, alexia, disorder of reading, agraphia, disorder of writing, apraxia, disorder of skilled movements AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 8 Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials ... Bibliography Author: Daniel H Jacobs, MD , Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Florida Daniel H Jacobs, MD, is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Neurology , and Society for Neuroscience Editor(s): Joseph Quinn, MD , Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Portland VA Medical Center, Oregon Health Sciences University; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD

45. WebMD Health - 404 Error Living with aphasia with Martha Taylor Sarno, MD. http://my.webmd.com/content/asset/chat_transcript.526505

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46. "Stroke And Diabetes" Link collection and personal story of Louis Albert, a survivor with diabetes and aphasia who has used assistive technology to create his site. http://www.ifip.com/stroke1.htm

Institute Stroke and Diabetes My name is Louis Albert. I am disabled and use this Web Page to communicate with the world. I have "FLUENT" APHASIA In 1983 I began using insulin for my Type-2 - DIABETES. In May of 1995 I had a severe stroke . Because of the stroke and the resulting aphasia I am totally disabled. I have trouble reading and WRITING. Between Dragon Systems, Inc. , and WordPerfect I am almost able to communicate in writing! I have always enjoyed and used photography. I hope my "pages" are both enjoyable and information. More Stuff Is more of the story, and I hope interesting! I am totally disabled! Aphasia, stroke and diabetes make you depressed. I hope I get use to the idea soon! (It's been more than five years!) Margaret, my wife, respond about a man who's wife just had a stoke: " When Lou had his stroke I had no idea what to do or what to expect. One of the biggest things was getting therapy as early a possible. The earlier your wife begins to relearn what she has lost the better she will be. Lou could not speak of anything coherently for the first couple days. He thought he was telling us what he wanted or needed but he did not make any sense. It was slow but he did make progress. He made a lot of progress at the beginning, and slower progress as the weeks and months progressed. The hardest thing for me was to be patient and try to figure out what he was trying to talk about. Often he could tell me all kinds of non essential things about the person he wanted to tell about but not the name of the person. Different stroke victims react differently to stress and pain. You have to remember how frustrating it has to be to try to communicate and not be able to get your thoughts across to the other person.

47. Aphasia Forum aphasia is a serious social disability but, even today, in Italy it isan almost unknown problem for the community. We aphasia. aphasia http://www.aphasiaforum.com/engl.htm

A p h as i a F o r u m Alessandra Tinti e Maura Marogna home Aphasia I ncidence and prevalence ... Guidebook for operators Aphasia is a serious social disability but, even today, in Italy it is an almost unknown problem for the community. We believe that for anyone interested in language disorders, it may be useful to have a site to share opinions about this topic APHASIA Aphasia is a language disorder that occurs in adults following a focal brain damage which involves the language-dominant cerebral hemisphere. Individuals who previously were communicating and understanding others' communication through speech, sign, reading and writing, suddenly find themselves unable or limited in their ability to participate in communicative activity of the social life. INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE Although aphasia may result from brain tumors, head injuries or other insults to areas of the brain concerned with language processing, the most common cause of aphasia is stroke . According to the Italian Aphasic Association , in Italy there are 150.000 aphasic people and 10.000 new cases of aphasia annually.

48. Yosef Grodzinsky Agrammatism, aphasia, Neurolinguistics (Tel Aviv University, Israel) http://freud.tau.ac.il/~yosef1/

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50. Show HD Leaflets Communication tips and suggestions for support, provided by Healthtouch Online and the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association. http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/EContent_HT/showAllLfts.asp?lftname=ASLHA026&

51. Guitar And Music Software Guitarz.Com aphasia@guitarz.com. http://www.guitarz.com/

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52. Aphasia / Family Village Library A B. aphasia. http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_apha.htm

Aphasia Who to Contact Where to Go to Chat with Others Learn More About It Web Sites ... Search Google for "Aphasia" Who to Contact National Aphasia Association (NAA) 29 John St., Suite 1103 New York, NY 10038 Phone: (800) 922-4622 E-mail: naa@aphasia.org Website: http://www.aphasia.org/ The NAA's mission is to educate the public to know that the word aphasia describes an impairment of the ability to communicate, not an impairment of intellect. The NAA makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and health care professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment. Where to Go to Chat with Others Aphasia List The Aphasia mailing list was set up to share information, experiences, questions, knowledge, feelings, etc. etc. with respect to Aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the brain, e.g. by a CVA ('stroke')or by head trauma.A lthough communication will be in written English which may be a problem for many persons with Aphasia, they are specifically encouraged to join and contribute to the list. Learn More About It Aphasia From the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Aphasia From Amy Lynch Questions and Answers About Aphasia From the National Aphasia Association Aphasia Fact Sheet From the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Adult Aphasia: Recent Research From the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

53. 404 Error Consumeroriented primer by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Includes descriptions of aphasia varieties and related disorders, introductions to assessment and treatment methods, and links to ASHA's articles on augmentive communication and family adjustment to aphasia. http://www.asha.org/speech/disabilities/Aphasia_1.cfm

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54. Aphasia aphasia. aphasia, unable to repeat sentence. Type, Speech, Comprehension, Localization. aphasia,able to repeat sentence well. Type, Speech, Comprehension, Localization. http://neuroland.com/sands/aphasia.htm

Neuroland Neurology information Click on the brain to index page Search NeuroLand Neuro disease Notes ... Neuro Med Aphasia Aphasia, unable to repeat sentence Type Speech Comprehension Localization Expressive (Broca) Nonfluent good Lower posterior frontal Receptive (Wernicke) Fluent poor Posterior superior temporal Conduction Fluent good Usually parietal operculum Global Nonfluent poor Large perisylvian lesion Aphasia, able to repeat sentence well Type Speech Comprehension Localization Tanscortical motor Nonfluent good Anterior to Broca's area or supplementary speech area Transcortical sensory Fluent poor Surrounding Wernicke's area posteriorly Transcortical mixed Nonfluent poor both of the above Anomic Fluent good Angular gyrus or second temporal gyrus NEUR LAND Click on the brain to index page

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56. Aphasia - MossRehab ResourceNet aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portionsof the brain that are responsible for language. Who has aphasia? http://www.mossresourcenet.org/aphasia.htm

Quick Links ResourceNet Home Accessible Travel Fact Sheets I ... n The News Aphasia Fact Sheet Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, these are parts of the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder impairs both the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage. Who has aphasia? Anyone can acquire aphasia, but most people who have aphasia are in their middle to late years. Men and women are equally affected. It is estimated that approximately 80,000 individuals acquire aphasia each year. About one million persons in the United States currently have aphasia. What causes aphasia? Aphasia is caused by damage to one or more of the language areas of the brain. Many times, the cause of the brain injury is a stroke. A stroke occurs when, for some reason, blood is unable to reach a part of the brain. Brain cells die when they do not receive their normal supply of blood, which carries oxygen and important nutrients. Other causes of brain injury are severe blows to the head, brain tumors, brain infections, and other conditions of the brain. In contrast to Broca's aphasia, damage to the temporal lobe may result in a fluent aphasia that is called Wernicke's aphasia. Individuals with Wernicke's aphasia may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add unnecessary words, and even create new "words." For example, someone with Wernicke's aphasia may say, "You know that smoodle pinkered and that I want to get him round and take care of him like you want before," meaning "The dog needs to go out so I will take him for a walk." Individuals with Wernicke's aphasia usually have great difficulty understanding speech and are therefore often unaware of their mistakes. These individuals usually have no body weakness because their brain injury is not near the parts of the brain that control movement.

57. Aphasia Supportive information for families of aphasic stroke survivors, from Caregiverinformation.com. http://www.caregiver-information.com/Stroke/Aphasia/aphasia.htm

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58. MossRehab ResourceNet-Aphasia Text Homepage MossRehab ResourceNet aphasia Homepage. graphics version. aphasia Fact Sheet. http://www.mossresourcenet.org/textapha.htm

MossRehab ResourceNet Aphasia Homepage graphics version Home Accessible Travel Fact Sheets ... Translation Aphasia - Fact Sheet Fact Sheet Organizations Internet Resources Newsgroups ... Listservs Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to the portion of the brain that is dominant for language. For most people, this is the left side of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, frequently the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder may involve aspects of language comprehension and/or expression. Aphasia treatment strives to improve an individual's ability to communicate. The most effective treatment begins early in the recovery process. Major factors that influence the amount of improvement include the cause of the brain damage, the area of the brain that was damaged, the extent of the brain injury, and the age and health of the patient. Additional factors include motivation, handedness, and educational level. There are many types of aphasia, however, Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia are two widely studied aphasic syndromes. Broca's aphasia results from damage to the front portion of the language dominant side of the brain. Wernicke's aphasia results from damage to the back portion of the language dominant side of the brain. Individuals with Broca's aphasia may speak in short, meaningful sentences. They often omit small words such as "as," "and," and "the." Persons with Wernicke's aphasia may speak in long sentences that have no meaning and often add unnecessary words and create new words. Patients with Broca's aphasia are able to comprehend much of the speech of others, but patients with Wernicke's aphasia have notable difficulties understanding speech.

59. The Tavistock Trust For Aphasia Bedfordshirebased charity whose aims are to establish clinics across the country, support research into speech and language therapy, and to determine the most cost-effective treatments. http://www.aphasiatavistocktrust.org/

Welcome to the The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia In 1988 the late 14th Duke of Bedford suffered a stroke. His life was saved by prompt and highly skilled surgery, but he was left for many months with a severe disturbance of his speech of a type known as aphasia. With the help of intensive speech therapy, he slowly began to recover, but always experienced difficulty accessing the words he needed or wanted to use. Why the charity was founded The Duke's experiences at the time of his stroke left him in no doubt about the difference that continual speech and language therapy made. He also became aware of the lack of help available to sufferers of aphasia in this country. A lack of funds within the NHS means that speech and language therapists in hospitals tend to be diverted to life threatening conditions, and much of their time is taken up with swallowing difficulties. Virtually no help is available for aphasics and minimal speech and language therapy is offered. That was why the Duke founded 'The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia', to try and ensure that more people could have access to the quality of treatment he received. He called it the 'Tavistock Trust for Aphasia' because that was his name. When his father died in October 2002 he became the 14th Duke of Bedford.

60. Aphasia: A Language Disorder aphasia A Language Disorder. The most common cause of aphasia is a stroke, butother causes are brain tumors, head injury, or other neuralgic illnesses. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web1/Xiong.html

Biology 202 1999 First Web Reports On Serendip Aphasia: A Language Disorder Joseph Xiong "My most valuable tool is words, the words I can now use only with difficulty. My voice is debilitated - mute, a prisoner of a communication system damaged by a stroke that has robbed me of language," stated A. H. Raskins, one of approximately one million people in the United States who suffer from aphasia , a disorder which limits the comprehension and expression of language. It is an acquired impairment due to brain injury in the left cerebral hemisphere. The most common cause of aphasia is a stroke, but other causes are brain tumors, head injury, or other neuralgic illnesses. Of the estimated 400,000 strokes which occur a year, approximately 80,000 of those patients develop some form of aphasia . Another important observation is that within the United States, there are twice as many people with aphasia as there are individuals with Parkinson's disease . Yet, what is so astounding is the lack of public awareness about aphasia. Aphasia attacks an intricate part of a person's daily life - the simple act of communication and sharing. The disbursement of such a tool deprives an individual of education learned through their life, often leaving the ill fated feeling hopeless and alone. In considering the effects of aphasia, a deeper analysis of the two most common forms of aphasia will be examined: Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia. While both forms occur usually as a result of a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain, their particular site of impairment produces different side effects in an individual's comprehension and speech. These regions have been further studied through experimental researches such as positron emission tomography (PET). Moreover, although there is currently no cure for the disorder, there are treatments and certain guidelines to follow when encountering an aphasic.

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