Exploring new pathways to language
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 06:49
in Health & Medicine
When ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq in 2006, he suffered severe head injuries that caused him to lose his ability to recall and produce common words - a condition called aphasia. Today, Woodruff has recovered most of his language skills thanks to intensive behavioural therapy - reading and repeating words and sounds...