“Bruce Willis’s aphasia diagnosis brings awareness to communication disorder”
(03/30/22, Boston25news.com)
Expert quote:
““People with post-stroke aphasia or primary progressive aphasia usually have trouble speaking aloud or in complete sentences. They also have trouble understanding what is being said to them. An actor’s role is to speak and communicate and recite from memory long sentences with emotion. And what aphasia does to a person is disrupts that ability or takes away that ability.” – Swathi Kiran, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences