Expressive aphasia — which includes Broca’s aphasia — is when a person understands speech but has difficulty speaking fluently. Some people can say short phrases but leave out small words such as “the ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mom had a stroke recently and is really struggling with her speech. She's in speech therapy, but could you please tell me more about this side effect of a stroke? ANSWER: Aphasia ...

Bruce Willis’ family shared last week that he was one of the millions of people diagnosed each year with aphasia, an impairment that alters a person’s ability to speak or read Julie Mazziotta is the ...

Bruce Willis will be “stepping away” from his acting career after he was diagnosed with aphasia, his family has announced. According to the actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, who shared the news on ...

People who have aphasia can have trouble with things like speaking, reading, or listening. Research estimates about 1 million people in the United States are living with aphasia. There are two ...

University of Iowa speech pathologists who work with patients that have the neurogenic disorder aphasia — a condition that impairs a person’s ability to understand and express language — aim to ...

Aphasia is a condition characterized by the sudden loss of the ability to communicate. It typically occurs suddenly after a brain injury, most commonly after a stroke, but can also happen gradually as ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that can affect a person’s use of language. It can impact their ability to speak, to understand, to read and to write, but not necessarily all of these. It often happens ...

Most people who are familiar with the term associate it with stroke (i.e., brain damage caused by disrupted blood flow to the brain). But aphasia, an impairment of language, is not always caused by ...

Bruce Willis, the 67-year-old star of numerous classic blockbusters from “Die Hard” and “Armageddon” to “The Sixth Sense,” announced on Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with aphasia and will be ...