Aphasia

Who to Contact
Where to Go to Chat with Others
Learn More About It
Web Sites
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Who to Contact

National Aphasia Association (NAA)
350 Seventh Avenue, Suite 902
New York , NY 10001
(212) 267-2814
(212) 267-2812 (fax)
(800) 922-4622
E-mail: naa@aphasia.org
Website: http://www.aphasia.org/

The NAA's mission is to educate the public to know that the word aphasia describes an impairment of the ability to communicate, not an impairment of intellect. The NAA makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and health care professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment.

Where to Go to Chat with Others

• Aphasia List
  The Aphasia mailing list was set up to share information, experiences, questions, knowledge, feelings, etc. etc. with respect to Aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the brain, e.g. by a CVA ('stroke')or by head trauma.A lthough communication will be in written English which may be a problem for many persons with Aphasia, they are specifically encouraged to join and contribute to the list.

Learn More About It

• Aphasia
  From the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
   
• Acquired Childhood Aphasia
  From Penn State's Children's Hospital

• Questions and Answers About Aphasia
  

• Aphasia Fact Sheet
  From the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

• Adult Aphasia: Recent Research
  From the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Web Sites

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

• Aphaisa Hope Foundation

• National Aphasia Association

Last Updated August 6, 2007 by rowley@waisman.wisc.edu
Document Source: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_apha.htm