{"id":70702,"date":"2022-04-04T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=70702"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:18:03","slug":"70702-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/70702-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bruce Willis\u2019s aphasia diagnosis brings awareness to communication disorder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(03\/30\/22, Boston25news.com)<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/SwathiKiran_0035-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><em>Expert quote: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>\u201cPeople 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\u2019s 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.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/swathi-kiran-ph-d-ccc-slp\/\">Swathi Kiran<\/a>, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech, Language &amp; Hearing Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/suffolk-county\/bruce-williss-aphasia-diagnosis-brings-awareness-communication-disorder\/EILORHI7XND6JBW47NCYRQGYTE\/\">Watch the Segment on Boston25News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(03\/30\/22, Boston25news.com) Expert quote: &#8220;\u201cPeople 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\u2019s role is to speak and communicate and recite from memory long sentences with emotion. And what aphasia does to a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19722,"featured_media":70782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5144],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70761,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70702\/revisions\/70761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}