Hollywood action superstar Bruce Willis announced his early retirement from acting in February 2023 due to aphasia. On Feb. 17, Emma Heming Willis, Bruce Willis’s wife, posted on Instagram stating that after further medical diagnosis, Bruce Willis was confirmed with frontotemporal dementia. Unfortunately, communication difficulties are only one of the symptoms of the brain disorder….

When Paul Fraser collapsed in his home in Byron Bay, New South Wales (NSW), he lay helpless on the floor, suddenly unable to speak. His wife Julie Brown immediately called an ambulance, knowing he was likely having a stroke. “He was speaking gobbledygook,” Brown told AAP, recalling the moment at their northern NSW residence in…

Scientists from Australia’s Monash University have worked out a new technology to help people with aphasia to communicate. Teaming up with Monash Health speech pathologists and their patients, students from the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) and Monash Young Medtech Innovators (MYMI) have designed Project QWERTY, a free website that offers a high-tech but…