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Speech After Stroke-Treating Aphasia Frank Sullivan is one of almost 5 million stroke survivors in the U.S. “I’ve had a stroke, this June here locally.” He lives with a common after effect, called aphasia. “I have a very hard time with my speech and how fast I can talk.” “Aphasia is neurological disorder and it…

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of neurological disability after Alzheimer’s disease. The incidence of stroke has slowly declined over the last 30 years partly due to increased awareness of risk factors and improvement in prophylactic measures and better surveillance of those individuals at…