Problems

Cliff was a highly educated scientist who wanted to return to work as soon as possible. He'd sustained a head injury after losing consciousness and falling. He periodically became very discouraged by the difficulty of learning to read and write at a higher-level again. Like many people with aphasia, he had high expectations of himself and his progress.

• Fluent speech but severe word-finding problems
• Verbose and tangential
• Little reading or writing
• No awareness he wasn’t communicating effectively