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What Is Aphasia?
Aphasia is any disease or trama induced brain damage that causes a language disorder. Most commonly caused by a stroke, it can also be caused by infection, tumors, hemorrhaging and blows to the head. The worst type is called global aphasia, which causes the patient to be mute. Less severe types of aphasia where some language is retained are split into two types called fluent aphasia and non fluent aphasic. Fluent aphasics speak fluidly but they may not make sense when they peak. Non fluent aphasics produce labored speech and have difficulty structuring their sentences.
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