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Aphasia and dysphasia

Sometimes aphasia is called dysphasia.

What's the difference?

In the dictionary, aphasia and dysphasia have different meanings:

• aphasia means 'total inability to communicate'
• dysphasia means 'impaired ability to communicate'

But aphasia and dysphasia are generally used to mean the same thing:

'difficulty with spoken and written communication following injury to the brain'.

On this website, we use the term aphasia.

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