Sentences with phrase «from aphasia»

The patient now suffers from aphasia and partial paralysis on her left side.

In April he performed in the world premiere of Recollections: Songs From Aphasia by «Blue» Gene Tyranny and Mary Griffin.

Two groups in the United Kingdom, City University London and The Stroke Association advocacy group, are testing computer - based technology running on the Nintendo Wii and Apple iPad to allow stroke victims suffering from the aphasia language impediment to communicate using gestures.

Rummaging in the front closet for some extra protection, he had pulled out, with a smile he couldn't have interpreted for himself, a long - forgotten item, the tricolor scarf that his ex-wife, Pascale, had learned to knit for him during the four months when she was recovering from aphasia, four months that had produced, among other shockers, an excessively long French flag of a wool scarf, which he wound seven and a half times around his neck before heading out into the dark to deal with the rush in his head.

Not exact matches

When we began the interview, he warned me, with merry self - deprecation, that he suffers from «nominal aphasia,» or the inability to reproduce names.

The word «Hodor» was a punchline for six full seasons — the character spoke his first «Hodor» in the series» fourth episode — and his aphasia was so charming that it was the only thing we missed from Bran's absence in Season 5.

«Aphasia is considered to be strictly a language deficit, but as a field we are starting to embrace the notion that language is not distinct from other functions, and that it is really integrated with many other functions,» Sandberg said.

«Talking with friends and family at home is a completely different dimension from what we do in therapy,» said Leora Cherney, research scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and an expert in aphasia treatment.

The majority of patients who survive a stroke usually continue to suffer from permanent motor disorders (hemiparesis) or a linguistic handicap (aphasia).

One climber suffered aphasia (problems with speech), from which he recovered six months later.

East Hanover, NJ — January 24, 2018 — Olga Boukrina, PhD, research scientist in Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a $ 10,000 grant from the Mabel H. Flory Charitable Trust to continue to study the role of reading deficits as a barrier to stroke rehabilitation, specifically the treatment of aphasia.

Thiel L, Sage K, Conroy P. Promoting linguistic complexity, greater message length and ease of engagement in email writing in people with aphasia: initial evidence from a study utilizing assistive writing software.