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What is Aphasia?

甚麼是失語症?

According to International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), ”Aphasia is a combination of a speech and language disorder caused by damage to the brain that affects about one million individuals within the US. Most often caused by a cerebral vascular accident, which is also known as a stroke, aphasia can cause impairments in speech and language modalities. To be diagnosed with aphasia, a person’s speech or language must be significantly impaired in one (or several) of the four communication modalities following acquired brain injury or have significant decline over a short time period (progressive aphasia). The four communication modalities are auditory comprehension, verbal expression, reading and writing, and functional communication.” ICD-10-CM Code R47.01

失語症是後天的溝通障礙，導致部份或全部語言能力有不同程度的障礙（例如：口語表達、口語理解、閱讀、書寫）。失語症由大腦語言區受損所造成。造成失語症的最常見原因就是中風，其他原因還包括頭部外傷（例如：車禍、撞擊）、腦腫瘤或感染。

失語症可能影響患者的單一或多種語言的症狀及嚴重程度因人而異。最嚴重的失語症患者因幾乎全部語言能力都受損，所以幾乎不可能與人溝通；輕度的失語症患者就仍有一定程度的溝通能力。

What is People with Aphasia PWA?

誰是失語症患者?

Most people with aphasia has difficulty in speaking, expressing themselves in form of speech. Some of them are able to express through other means like drawings, writings, electronic devices etc.

A minority group of people with Aphasia has difficulty in understanding. They seems to talk a lot yet not in logical order. They could response in conversation yet unable to understand what the message that has just conveyed.

Whereas many adults with aphasia know exactly what is going on, have opinions on issues, have the desire to socialize, and are capable of participating in decisions that pertain to

them. But the diseases affects a person’s ability to communicate feelings, thoughts and emotions, or the ability to understand what others say.

大多數失語症患者難以說話，無法通過言語表達自己。 其中一些能夠通過其他方式表達，例如圖紙，文字，電子設備等。

少數患有失語症的人很難理解。 他們似乎在說很多話，但順序不合邏輯。 他們可以在對話中做出回應，但無法理解剛剛傳達的信息。

許多失語症成年人確切地知道發生了什麼，對問題有意見，渴望社交，並有能力參與決定。 但是，疾病會影響個人交流，思想和情感的能力，或者理解他人說話的能力。

失語症患者在以下方面可能遇上困難：

  • 說出適切的詞彙以表達真正想說的內容
  • 流暢地、咬字清晰地說話
  • 說出或寫出合理的句子
  • 理解他人說話的內容或所說的詞彙、句子
  • 朗讀或理解文字