Global aphasia results in severe disability in both understanding and producing speech. Conduction aphasia is when a person has good understanding but difficulty repeating words or sentences.

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Patients with Aphasia often have difficulty speaking, reading, writing and using numbers. It often follows traumatic brain injuries like strokes. The condition affects 2 million people in the U.S.