Aphasia disrupts one’s innate neurological state and is an altered change in being. What used to be typical behavior, such as quick speech responses, humor, and a unique identifying voice, is now different. Close family and friends observe that it takes a person living within aphasia (PLWA) longer to explain a thought and a familiar sounding voice is now altered.
From a clinical standpoint, physicians and speech pathologists recognize aphasia’s effects as disruptions in brain activity that change attention, listening, thinking, reading, and, especially, talking.
As a result of these events, a person living with aphasia may experience changes in their ability to understand and respond to questions, express thoughts, ideas, and feelings, as well as in their reading skills, which may persist over time.
Following the initial event, the brain promptly responds, initiating a healing process that begins with medical intervention.
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