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What is ?
Aphasia
Awareness and Advocacy below
Aphasia is
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an acquired language disorder
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most often caused by stroke, brain injury or brain illness
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Aphasia can affect a person's ability
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to speak
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understand language
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read, and/or
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write
Awareness and Advocacy
Approximately 5% of people understand aphasia. More than 30% of people who have a stroke are affected by aphasia. In Canada, over 120,000 people are living with aphasia. ​Aphasia masks a person's inherent competence.
​A person with aphasia... ​
knows what he/she wants
can make his/her own decisions
is a competent adult
Awareness and Advocacy
Check out this poster made by
the Ontario Aphasia Advocacy Group:
"Imagine if the last sentence you speak tonight is the
​last full sentence for the rest of your life."
- Stephen Goff, person with aphasia
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