MARIETTA – Many people finish school, look and settle into jobs and careers, land promotions, get married, travel and have children in their 20s. And in 2011, Marietta native Christine Huggins was no ...

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 ...

In 1983, Howard Blatt was a middle-aged married father working as an electrical engineer at MIT when he collapsed in his kitchen. He'd had a stroke. That health catastrophe left him with a paralyzed ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — An estimated 6,000 people in Pima County live with the communications disorder apashia. The majority of them have the condition as a result of a stroke. "Aphasia is devastating.

June marks Aphasia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about aphasia, a language disorder that affects communication abilities following brain damage, often due to stroke. Aphasia ...

Things were going well for Shannon King in March 2017. The Brighton resident was then 51, and busy, working as a paralegal. “It was the best job I ever had,” she said. Then her body started doing ...

Expressive aphasia can happen after brain damage and may affect your ability to speak or write. A few signs include using short phrases and substituting words with similar sounds or meanings.

Post-stroke aphasia generates a one-year cost of approximately $1,703, according to a study in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers studied Medicare beneficiaries who had an ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

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 ...