I have aphasia following a stroke in September 2022. I’d never heard of aphasia before. I was unable to talk. The hospital was busy and the communication team provided me with little speech and language therapy. After 4 weeks, I moved to a rehab unit, where there was treatment a few days a week. This…
Hi everyone! My name is Sherry. Five years ago, I had a stroke that resulted in me having aphasia. I understand everything that is said to me, I just have trouble getting my words out. Most of the time I speak verbally and us gestures but sometimes I use my AAC device to help me.…
Frustration. I know I want to talk but I cannot speak myself and I have two or three ways to express my meaning. Such as, I use my iPhone to express my meaning, gestures, a pen and paper or writing, or also with pictures. Everyday in my speech sessions I learn about Semantic Feature Analysis…
My name is Ricky. I am thirty seven years old. I was a computer programmer. I love basketball and working out. I have two brothers, Mark and Dave. My stroke was in December 2018. I was at home. I was exercising. I had a headache. Then, I blacked out. I am still working on getting…
My name is Bernice. I am 78 years old. I have four sons, Dean, Chad, Kelly and Steven. I had a massive stroke on the 12th of December, 2012. I was in Arizona. It happened while I was sleeping. Darryl woke up, saw me and knew something was wrong. I was in hospitals in Arizona…
My name is Sam. I was stationed in Japan when I had my stroke. I had a massive headache that lasted for five days. I was confused with loss of balance. My wife was in Ghana and took a flight to the United States so we could meet in Washington. I was transferred by…
While having chai with a friend and my wife high in the mountains of India, I started talking gibberish. Doctors at the local hospital told me I had a cerebral hemorrhage and that I would be my old self in three months. They were wrong. When I got back to the United States a month…
I was 17 years old, when i had a stroke, My life was stopped ,see I have dreamed in My comatose state. My doctors told my father your daughter will not make it. So my grandma(abuelita) pray in my ICU room in the big apple city , 3 days. See I was 28 days comatose,…
My name is Tom Broussard, three-time stroke survivor called “Johnny Appleseed of Aphasia Awareness.” Aphasia affects about two million people and is more common than Parkinson’s Disease, cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy yet most people have never heard of it. I studied 20 hospitals in Florida and found that only four websites provide any information…
I’m Sam Cohen and I had a massive stroke. When I was 22 years old, I had a blood clot, which reached all the way to my brain. I went to four therapy places. I was in the hospital, St.Charles hospital, Gaylord hospital, and LIU Post. LIU Post was the last place I went to…