Katie Strong, Ph.D., faculty member in Communication Sciences and Disorders received the State Clinical Achievement Award for Recent Clinical Achievement from the American Speech-Language-Hearing ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

MIDLAND Twenty years ago, a vision was born out of the lifechanging events of Chuck Matthews and daughter, Kathryn Shelley. Chuck suffered a stroke that led to a terrifying loss of self-expression, ...

Aphasia, most commonly caused by having a stroke, is a language disorder that impacts a person’s ability to understand and express language. The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences (CDS ...

Global aphasia is a condition that results from extensive damage to the language-processing areas of the brain. It is the most severe form of aphasia. Treatment aims to improve language and ...

Bruce Willis’ family shared last week that he was one of the millions of people diagnosed each year with aphasia, an impairment that alters a person’s ability to speak or read Julie Mazziotta is the ...

Mertro Robinson, Mike Janis, and Kerensa Boates have been living with and thriving despite a largely invisible impairment for years. Robinson of New Castle, Delaware, was a senior human resources ...

Aphasia and dysarthria both occur due to damage in the brain, but while aphasia causes difficulty in expressing and understanding speech, dysarthria causes difficulty controlling muscles necessary for ...

One day in 2011, Tom Broussard, Heller PhD’06, P’02, was walking with his wife not far from the Brandeis campus when he suddenly fell to the ground. Broussard, who was then associate dean for ...

Migraine episodes are mostly known for causing pain and discomfort, but they can also sometimes have neurological (brain-related) effects, including aphasia. Migraine headaches are intense headaches ...