Aphasia is a language deficit in terms of expression and comprehension. Person with aphasia has cognitive and communication difficulties. Individual with aphasia has inability to express and receive what they want and like. There are various types of aphasia. Broca’s aphasia is related to non-fluent telegraphic speech. Wernicke’s aphasia is related to jargon speech. Conduction aphasia is related to repetition deficit. Nominal aphasia is related to deficit in word-finding and naming. Global aphasia is related to severe impairment in all modalities. Aphasia assessment is to be conducted culturally and linguistically relevant to language and communication.Aphasia therapy develops social skills and confidence, promotes independence and decision making and also social integration. Basically, Primary school teachers should have awareness on aphasia so that he/she can deal children with aphasia. Thus, the main objective of the study is to find out significant differences if any, in awareness on aphasia among primary school teachers due to variation in gender, locality, management, age, educational qualification and teaching experience. Null hypothesesare formulated. The investigator has adopted survey method. The sample of the study is100 primary school teachers followed by simple random sampling technique. Awareness testis constructed and developed.The reliability of the awareness scale is 0.82(Using Kr-21) and intrinsic validity was 0.9.From the results, it is clear that 13% (N=100) of primary school teachers of Namsai district, Arunachal Pradesh, India, have high level of awareness on Aphasia. It means, 13% of primary school teachers have higher level of awareness on meaning of aphasia, characteristics of children with aphasia, classification of aphasia, causes of aphasia, assessment procedure for aphasic children and strategies to deal with children with aphasia. 63% (N=100) of primary school teachers have moderate level of awareness on aphasia with regard to meaning of aphasia, characteristics of children with aphasia, classification of aphasia, causes of aphasia, assessment procedure for aphasic children and strategies to deal with children with aphasia. The study signifies that the gender does not differ in awareness on aphasia among the primary school teachers. The aphasic community does not seek sympathy, but empathy and only by having a basic understanding about aphasia primary school teachers may restore the rightful and delightful life.

Awareness, Aphasia and Primary School Teacher