Verbal communication, speaking and interpreting, is so vital to being
human that many assumed that when one loses
that ability,
one loses their mind.
His mind is still churning, probably working overtime.
It's his brain that's been bashed.
So what's it called,
when someone loses this ability?
It's a disorder known as aphasia.
Aphasia is an impairment of language that affects a person's
ability to produce and comprehend speech and their ability to
read and write.
This is Peter.
Maria.
And Robert, and these individuals were kind enough to share
their experiences living with aphasia.
I didn't think about it.
it's all in your head but getting it out.
B,
e a t.
E r.
Reading it out loud.
Don't mean,
you understand me.
How about speaking?
You have any troubles with that or not
really?
So what causes Aphasia? Aphasia is caused by injury to the
language centers of the brain,
the most common cause of brain injury is stroke.
A stroke is when there is a blood clot or
a leaking or burst blood vessel that blocks blood flow
to part of the brain or damages brain tissue.
When there is no blood flow, brain cells die.
Some other causes include traumatic.
Head injuries to MERS infections and Progressive.
Neurological diseases like dementia.
So,
I will talk to Waze.
Give me instructions.
Play sing with things like
that.
Biggest problem is dealing with doctors.
Dealing with a question-and-answer session.
like if I'm in a doctor's room when
review,
when did you quit?
What is art?
Are you thinking of?
Communicating.
Yes,
I do.
Karthika.
so,
in my mouth,
I didn't speak to you.
I know what to say,
getting your message out.
You going down.
So your friends?
AA is MMA means.
Burlingame.
Not really,
that's good.
I lost all mine.
Social life apart from family.
Nobody could talk to me.
I felt a lot better now,
but in that time.
But I sold a friend.
How to speech therapy helps
a lot.
I work at Shop and Save today.
Rest.
Wait after signal.
The biggest thing,
the feelings of frustration.
Finding ways of coping with her.
Concentrate.
I'm trying to get the clothes.
So,
the big question is,
how do you treat Aphasia following a brain injury?
A lot of changes happen to the brain,
which helped it to recover as a result people with
Aphasia often.
See dramatic Improvement in their language and communication ability in
the months, following the injury,
even without treatment.
However,
some of us Still Remains after this.
And these cases speech and language therapy is used.
Speech and language therapy,
aims to improve the patient's ability to communicate to do.
So, let's meet your language pathologist or flp helps their patients
to use their remaining language abilities.
Restore language abilities,
as much as possible and learn other ways of communicating.
People with Aphasia,
can seek to have individual therapy that focuses on the
specific needs of the person they can also partake in
group therapy where they can use their new communication skills
in a group setting.
I love you too much.
Trains from around me.
Ewing.
With the fascia social
side.
The.
It's safe place to practice.
Most importantly as humans.
We often tend to make generalizations and assumptions about various
diseases and disorders which can lead to Major misconceptions.
What is the biggest myth surrounding Aphasia is that it
affects intelligence in reality has nothing to do with intelligence
but instead with language just because someone cannot understand you
or cannot find the words to fully Express themselves,
doesn't mean they are less intelligent intelligence and language are
completely separate.
Here's some Community Resources across.
Ontario s potentially benefit individuals,
living with Aphasia and their families.
They will also be included in the description below.
Thank you for listening.
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