Global aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterized by severe impairments in all modalities of language. The specific sites of injury commonly include Wernike's and Broca's areas and result from large strokes--particularly those involving the internal carotid or middle cerebral arteries. Rarely, deep subcortical lesions may cause global aphasia. We present three cases with global apha...

The purpose of this review is to describe the state of the science of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for adults with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. Recent advances in AAC for six groups of people with degenerative and chronic acquired neurological conditions are detailed. Specifically, the topics of recent AAC technological advances, acceptance, use, limitations,...

Receiving empathy and understanding is a constant need for those living with aphasia, an acquired language disorder that impairs expressive and receptive language (both spoken and written). With the introduction of ACES, a system that realistically emulates the effects of aphasia, we demonstrate how people can increase their empathy towards individuals aphasia, by experiencing the disorder firs...

Aphasia is a language impairment caused by acquired brain injury such as stroke. Public awareness about aphasia low in Sweden well internationally. The media an important source of information on aphasia, but research how people with are portrayed the scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to increase knowledge representations living studying Swedish journalistic newspaper articles. It focused sto...

This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study reports on the impact of semantic feature analysis (SFA) therapy on the neural substrate sustaining the recovery from severe anomia in two patients: one participant was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) 2 years before this study; the other participant acquired aphasia 8 years before this study. The participant ...

Landau-Kleffner syndrome is characterized by a complex group of symptoms including deterioration in language skills, seizures, and abnormal electroencephalography findings. A six-year-old male patient had aphasia for three years and generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizures for two years. Pure-tone audiometry and auditory brain-stem response audiometry findings were normal. He had verbal audi...

This critical review examines the evidence from studies on the effectiveness of PROMPT therapy in the treatment of individuals with acquired apraxia of speech and coexisting aphasia. Four studies that met search criteria were obtained, all of which used single-subject multiple-baseline designs. This evidence-based literature review suggests that PROMPT therapy may be an effective treatment for ...

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder commonly caused by a stroke or brain injury. A slowly growing number of studies have emerged reporting the psychosocial disruptions experienced people with aphasia (PWA) in present COVID-19 pandemic. To extend this topic better addressing PWA’s rehabilitation needs, paper aims to draw attention significance helping PWA stay “COVID-informed” through use r...