Imagine trying to speak but you could not find the words speech was difficult and or the words you were hearing sounded foreign to you…

Try: Imagine trying to speak but you could not find the words speech was difficult and or the words you were hearing sounded foreign to you however your intelligence is intact and you know what you want to say but cannot get the words out that is the common experience of care recipient’s cr with aphasia aphasia is usually caused by a stroke or brain injury with damage to one or more parts of the cr’s brain that deal with language according to the national aphasia association about 25 to 40 of cr’s who survive stroke get aphasia aphasia may also be caused by a brain tumor brain infection or dementia such as alzheimer alzheimer’s disease in some cases aphasia is an episodic symptom of epilepsy or other neurological disorder information references webmd com

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