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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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- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Aphasia (National Institutes of Health)
- Aphasia (Cleveland Clinic)
- Aphasia (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Aphasia (Medline Plus)
- Aphasia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Aphasia (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Aphasia (American Speech-Language Hearing Association)
- Aphasia in Adults: Recent Research (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Aphasia Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Cerebral Atrophy (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Aphasia (National Institutes of Health)
- Communication with People Who Have Aphasia: Some Dos and Don'ts (National Aphasia Association)
- Employment Rights of People with Communication Disabilities (American Speech-Language Hearing Association)
- Family Adjustment to Aphasia (American Speech-Language Hearing Association)
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- National Aphasia Association
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- NIDCD Directory of Organizations (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- NIDCD Glossary (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Q&A: Aging and Aphasia (Cleveland Clinic)
- Questions and Answers about Aphasia (National Aphasia Association)
- Selected Readings Appropriate for Individuals with Aphasia, Their Families, and Professionals (National Aphasia Association)
- Understanding Primary Progressive Aphasia (National Aphasia Association)
- What is Aphasia (Cleveland Clinic)
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