Aphasia -- about a 1,000,000 in the U.S. have this disorder impairing this expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing.
Aphasia is caused by damage to one or more of the language areas of the brain; but the brain has no problems with body weakness because their brain injury is not near the parts of the brain that control movement.
Posted by Paladin at May 18, 2010 09:52 PMWow - big impact that.
Posted by: jevvv at May 22, 2010 03:45 AM