How to Care: Types of Aphasia:

Aphasia — speech and language problems
Aphasia is difficulty with speech and language, due to stroke, brain injury or a neurological condition. A person with aphasia may have trouble reading, writing, talking, understanding speech and language. Whether the aphasia is short-term or permanent, the inability to communicate can be a major source of frustration for stroke survivors and caregivers.

Types of aphasia:

• Receptive aphasia
  A person with receptive aphasia cannot understand language, cannot take in (receive) what is being said or communicated.
• Expressive aphasia
  A person with expressive aphasia knows what he wants to say but cannot express it.
• Global aphasia
  With global aphasia, a person can neither understand what is being communicated nor express what he is thinking.