Those who have interacted with patients with aphasia are aware that there are different types of aphasia. Some patients have significant difficulty with understanding others’ language, some experience difficulty with expressing themselves with words, while
Advances in healthcare in combination with an increasingly diverse population have raised the likelihood that SLPs will encounter patients that may only speak a language other than English (non-English speaker), another language in addition to
Each June we recognize aphasia which is, in the most basic sense, a loss of language that affects many people. Though there are different types of aphasia, some features or characteristics are shared. People with aphasia have