MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'aphasia awareness'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:32:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447728&cid=t_243815_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FKfRo5Y9GzSU%2F Aphasia - what is that? Aphasia is the inability to communicate with speech. Someone can be completely aphasic, unable to speak at all, or they can be aphasic in such a way that they’re speaking, but they’re not making much sense to the listener. People with aphasia haven’t lost their mental capacity. Unless they’ve had some sort of head trauma that caused more damage to their brain, their intelligence is left intact. That’s what can make aphasia all that more cruel. They can think, but they can’t let you know what they’re thinking. Remember that as frustrating as it is for you to try to figure out what an aphasic person is saying, it probably doesn’t come close to the frustration of the person with aphasia. The National Aphasia Organization ... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447728 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:34:30 +0100 2447728