aphasic

Example Sentences

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In more recent years she has suffered health setbacks including a stroke that left her aphasic, and has performed only rarely.

From New York Times

My familiarity with Chaikin comes mainly from his productions of Samuel Beckett and Shepard that he directed late in his career, after a stroke had left him aphasic.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s great at picking up insider images, too, as when Bannon describes Giuliani, in his aphasic periods, as in the “mumble tank.”

From Los Angeles Times

So the hospital hired a speech pathologist who used a controversial technique called facilitated communication, which is where the speech therapist holds the hand of the aphasic patient.

From Los Angeles Times

On those immediate postelection mornings in November when I lay in bed aphasic and estranged from myself, whatever did not address the current predicament seemed unworthy.

From New York Times