Apraxia is a group of neurological disorders with multiple symptoms. However, not all doctors agree on which symptoms belong to which disorder. After a retired speech-language pathologist had a stroke ...

More than two million Americans live with aphasia, yet only 12% receive the correct diagnosis from the first provider they ...

Aphasia is a communication disorder that makes it hard to use words. It can affect your speech, writing, and ability to understand language. Aphasia results from damage or injury to parts of the brain ...

What are the seven A’s of Alzheimer’s? Through Alzheimer’s screenings, clinicians often refer to a list of symptoms known as the seven A’s, which are anosognosia, agnosia, aphasia, apraxia, altered ...

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening.

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening.

In March, the family of Bruce Willis, the actor best known for his roles in the Die Hard films, announced that he would be “stepping away” from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia.

A few years ago, I wrote two blog posts on multilingual aphasia, that is language and speech impairment in multilinguals due to brain damage. In the first (see here), I reported on a well-known case ...

Apraxia of Speech is a form of oral motor speech disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate conscious speech plans into motor plans. A person may therefore be aware of the words they ...