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The use of speech to communicate is unique to humans. When speech is impaired or absent, the impact on the person and his family is profound. One of the most heartbreaking and devastating disabilities is aphasia (uh'fay-zha) - an acquired communication impairment that affects the person's ability to speak, understand, read or write brought about by stroke and other forms of brain injury, trauma and infections.
For so many people, the hardest part of having aphasia is that those around you - neighbors and family members who do not understand what aphasia is., much less what it does to you. Many people with aphasia do not themselves know that their problem is called "aphasia" or that there are resources for learning to live with it.
One million people in the United States have acquired aphasia. The majority are the result of stroke. About one third of severely head-injured persons have aphasia.
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