Help for aphasia survivors and their families on the internet

People with aphasia (often called aphasia survivors) have limitations in how they process language. They typically have lost some of their ability to speak coherently and to understand spoken words, and they may also be challenged by reading and writing -- there are many variations, both in what changes and in how much it changes. People with aphasia may have mild or severe symptoms, or something in between. Over a million people in the United States have aphasia, which means that more than one out of every 300 people has this condition.

There are many resources for aphasia survivors and their families online. (Of course, our software is one of them, and if you haven't read about it yet,  here's a place in this site that describes how SentenceShaper works. )

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• A good starting point is the National Aphasia Association, a non-profit organization which works to meet the needs of people with aphasia and their families.

• MossRehab in Philadelphia has a very informative website, covering aphasia and a variety of other disabilities.

• The Aphasia Hope Foundation includes tips for living with aphasia, shares personal experiences of aphasia survivors, and provides other information.

• The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is a government website, part of the National Institutes of Health. Here's a link directly to their informative general page about adult aphasia.

• The Yahoo aphasia discussion group has over 250 members and has been going since 1999. There is no charge to join it, which gets you access to the Members-only section. Here is the page where you can read messages.

If you have a particular topic that you are researching, look it up at Google or Yahoo or your favorite other search engine. Note: if you are looking up a phrase, putting it in quotation marks will get you more useful links. For instance, "aphasia therapy " will be better than just the two words, aphasia and therapy.