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Aphasia (also Aphemia - from Greek α, without, and φημη, speech), is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain (like Broca's area). These areas are almost always located in the left hemisphere, and in most people this is where the ability to produce and comprehend language is found. However in a very small number of people language ability is found in the right h ...
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Aphasia Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/
- National Aphasia Association http://www.aphasia.org/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse, NIDCD, NIH, HHS http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/misc/clearinghouse.asp
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
Resources
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Aphasia (American Speech-Language Hearing Association)
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