November's Monthly Topic: What is Aphasia?

Subject: November Monthly Topic: Aphasia Resources Used: mayo.org Author Note: I am in no a professional of any kind. I am strongly against self-diagnosis, and encourage my audience to please seek the professional advice of their own trusted medical professional and any other trusted professional depending on the topic at hand. The Abler Blog ONLY PROVIDES LIMITED GENERAL INFORMATION, and ALWAYS CITES WHERE THEY FIND THEIR RESOURCES AND OR INFORMATION. Jessica Niziolek, Founder Of The Abler Blog, and online community. What Is Aphasia? It is a disorder that effects how a person’s ability to communicate. It Impacts their ability to also understand language as well written and or spoken. How The Diagnosis Process Go? Your trusted medical profession will order tests like a MRI, and do a complete physical to test your reflexes and so on. The doctor may also have you see a speech pathologist. Where they will do a full assessment to get an official diagnosis. And if the answer is yes, then what should be the right type of language therapy the person would benefit from the most. The assessment will help you, and the pathologist see for themselves how far progressed the condition is for you. The assessment may include to see if the person can engage in conversion, name common objects, and understand and use words correctly. How, When, And Why Does This Condition Occur? This condition usually occurs suddenly. IE If The person experiences a brain injury or suffers a stroke. However, it can be also be caused by a progressive brain disease (meaning degenerative) and or tumor. How Serve Can This Condition Be? This depends upon on a number of things, such has the extent of the person’s brain damage, and the main cause for why the aphasia is happening. What’s The Treatment Plan For Aphasia? If the Aphasia is a mild case, that is possible the person can recover without needing any treatment. But most of who get the diagnosis of Aphasia, do receive speech and language therapy to help regain their abilities in that are. Researchers are currently looking at medications to also help people with this condition. Either, as a stand alone option or to go with their speech and language therapy programs for this condition. To learn more about the treatment options available for Aphasia, please go this link: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aphasia/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20369523