Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting ability to speak, write, or understand language, both verbal and written. Aphasia is due to injury to the brain, often a stroke, but may also arise from head trauma, from brain tumors, or from infections.

At Cornerstone, the goal of speech and language therapy is to improve the person’s ability to communicate by restoring as much language as possible, teaching how to compensate for lost language skills, and finding other methods of communicating. Most patients make significant progress in recovery of language skills with consistent intervention.