increasing community awareness of aphasia. imagine waking up one day having lost your ability to use...
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Increasing community awareness of aphasia
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Imagine waking up one day having lost your
ability to use and understand language..
..welcome to the world of
aphasia
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Incidence and prevalence
• Aphasia has a high incidence
• 8600 people per year acquire aphasia
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Funding
• There is a direct relationship between the
public awareness of a condition and the
funding and services that are provided for
that condition.
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What is aphasia?
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Aphasia is a language disorder
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Aphasia can involve difficulties with..
Talking Reading
Listening Writing
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Symptoms of aphasia
Difficulties with:
• Putting thoughts into words
• Understanding words
• Reading and writing
• Speaking fluently
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Aphasia is NOT..
• An intellectual disability
• An articulation problem
• A coordination problem
• A hearing or vision problem
• A voice problem
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Who can acquire aphasia?
• Aphasia knows no boundaries
• Anyone can be affected
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What causes aphasia?
• Damage to the language centres in the brain
• Caused by
Stroke
Head injury
Tumour
dementia
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Living with aphasia
• Changes total life experience
• Aphasia constantly presents challenges
throughout life.
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Personal experience of aphasia
• Discussion with a person with aphasia.
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