JUNE IS NATIONAL APHASIA AWARENESS MONTH

PRESS RELEASES   6/1/2017

The professionals who work with people who have Aphasia want to bring awareness to the public and let the public know how aphasia affects are fellow human beings. Aphasia is when a person loses the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to a brain injury. This injury has nothing to do with loss of hearing or muscle damage. Many people assume that brain injuries can affect someone's intelligence but with aphasia, but that is not the case. Aphasia can be a result of a brain injury to the area of the brain that deals with speech. It depends on the area and the extent of the damage on how it will affect someone's speech. Someone who is suffering from aphasia may be able to speak but not write, or vice versa, or they could display any of a wide range of other deficiencies in language comprehension and production. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders as well which can enhance the difficulty of finding successful treatment. Brain injuries are very complex and misunderstood. The brain is a complex muscle/organ that we know very little of. The brain is what separates us from other creatures on this planet. Where the brain is so complex and we are not sure how it functions in its entirety; that makes it even harder to figure what to do when it doesn't function properly. Sometimes the brain can heal itself and other times the damage is permanent. Funding for research on brain injuries is very limited because there are so many other organizations competing for the same research money. Sometimes there is a moral factor or factors that come into play as well. The line between research and experimental can be very fine. There are a huge range of emotions that people feel when it comes to the brain. Some people say research away and others say it is not up to us to mess with nature. Brain surgery and injuries are so different then any other because the human brain is very unique in the way it functions from one person to another. Unlike the human heart or your knee; those work pretty much the same as everyone else's. Information provided by: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/262620/juneisaphasiaawarenessmonthnational.html