Patient-Centered Goals for People Living with Aphasia

Aphasia: a language disorder caused by brain damage (commonly stroke or injury) affecting speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. Diagnosis involves a comprehensive language assessment by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) to evaluate comprehension, expression, word-finding, and functional communication (According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)). Every year, aphasia impacts the lives of approximately 2 million Americans, and is more common […]