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A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...

Q: Why do people who have a stroke lose the ability to talk? All of a sudden my grandmother started mixing up her words, and that's how we knew something serious was going on. What happens to you when ...

University of Iowa speech pathologists who work with patients that have the neurogenic disorder aphasia — a condition that impairs a person’s ability to understand and express language — aim to ...

Fabi Hirsch Kruse had just started her private practice when she was asked to help one of her field’s most famous patients. Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had been shot during a 2011 ...

They perform 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in second CU Boulder production, and speech therapist notes that doing this in front of an audience ‘just blows me away’ The other four children who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communication classes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology aid the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly sat down with former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and his wife, Jeanine, to talk about his life with aphasia, a condition which makes it difficult to communicate. This week ...

Receptive Aphasia Wernicke’s (receptive) Aphasia includes both fluent aphasia and receptive aphasia. Fluent aphasia is a type of expressive aphasia that results in speech that is properly pronounced, ...

This week, I paid a visit to the home of General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency. I asked him to tell me about the day, coming up on three years ago, when ...