How Do You Get Treatment For Aphasia?
Of all language disorders, aphasia is probably the scariest. One day you are speaking fluently, and the next you suffer a stroke or head trauma and find that you cannot ask for a glass of water. When the language center of the brain is damaged, much learned language goes with it. Fortunately, there are therapies to treat aphasia. Early intervention is the key. Establish what kind of aphasia the person has. Someone with Broca’s aphasia understands words, but can only speak a few and with great effort. In Wernicke’s aphasia the patient does not understand other’s words very well and speaks a lot, but does not make sense. Start therapy as quickly as possible. This can make all the difference in how fast, or even whether, a person recovers. Consider the amount of brain damage, the person’s age and state of health in plans for therapy and in expectations of results. Work with the neurologist, pathologist and others who treat the patient. Find out what kind of therapy they will undergo, what
