To be aphasic is to suffer from a total or partial loss of language following brain damage. This means that people with aphasia can no longer – or with difficulty – speak, understand, read or write. The initial accident can be a stroke, head trauma or a ruptured aneurysm. the entourage of Bruce Willis did not wish to specify the origin of the brain problem.
Aphasia affects 250,000 people in France.
Since aphasia is not the consequence of mental retardation, deafness or impairment of the organs of speech, the aphasic is therefore capable of thinking and especially of communicating if we help him to s ‘Express.
Baudelaire suffered from aphasia. Closer to home, Kirk Douglas and Bruce Willis.
Admittedly, the disease interferes with daily life to converse, telephone, read, manage in an unknown place but we are today far from the time when we left in a corner the grandma or the grandpa following his attack. of paralysis.
A slow work of speech therapy
Treating aphasia means undertaking slow speech therapy rehabilitation work which must be done as soon as possible following the accident. When he walks the results are spectacular and the aphasic must keep hope. However, most affected families are unaware that the solution is not to find a place in a hospice as quickly as possible but, on the contrary, that it is necessary to break the total isolation, to mobilize to fight. Indeed, only rehabilitation can recover. If few people with aphasia can go back to work, there are many examples of condemned patients who talk once more, rewrite, travel and… come back to life. One of the doctor’s first roles, once the acute accident has been suppressed and the consequences of aphasia proven, is to take an interest in those around him. Because this one must carry out what one can compare to a kind of work of “mourning”. Because even if it is necessary to keep a reasonable hope, it is not easy for a child to understand that he will not play once more with his dad or with a spouse that the balance of the couple has tipped. This disease affects practically all ages, including children, for example in the event of head trauma. Not being able to communicate is a serious handicap, even if it is not accompanied by paralysis.
Remember that the only real treatment for aphasia is speech therapy, and the role of those around you, parents and friends is crucial.
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