<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9a7e9e15-519b-4d3f-94ae-2fe1afd6d580/661077D9-B9AC-4E57-939A-BA3263BF80E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/125570FB-3E42-4190-8C24-021201A30F8B" alt="aphasia" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells"><P>Since his stroke eight years ago aged 55, my father, Keith Howells – ex-policeman, confident public speaker, and last man standing at a party – has suffered from aphasia. A communication disorder, it occurs when the parts of the brain that process language are damaged. It affects 250,000 people a year in the UK and can be caused by head injuries or degenerative illness – but the most common cause is a stroke.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells"><P>The thought that this social man might never regain his language skills was horrible, but my mother was positive from the start. And we were hopeful – many people recover from aphasia, although doctors warned that significant improvement was unlikely outside the first 12 months.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/29/aphasia-kevin-howells"><P>Aphasia affects more people than Parkinson's, yet few know what the word means, let alone how the disability presents itself. Shopkeepers, waiters and passersby commonly talk down to my father, shy away or tut in disapproval. For an intelligent man, this is hard to take.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/661077D9-B9AC-4E57-939A-BA3263BF80E9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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