People with Aphasia helping each other to become independent, communicate with other Aphasic people and overcome Aphasia together

Helping bi-lingual aphasics

Maria Munoz

If you ever tried to speak a foreign language, you know how tough it can be. the native speaker ...

Kirk Douglas

BBC interview with Michael Parkinson

Leonard Bowden, Scotland

Lost for words


EVEN after a long conversation with Leonard Bowden, you still have no idea what his voice sounds like.

'Dumbstruck'

Aphasia Diary by playwright Nick Darke


The CD is available for a small fee from Jane by clicking the link.

Miraculous recovery from Aphasia/Apraxia

by Dan Kidd


Dan was miraculously healed during a worship service at his church, and it was not a special healing service, or a special preacher.

It happened during the middle of a song the youth band was playing..

Composer - Maurice Ravel - Bolero..

Robert Winston's Musical Analysis (BBC R4)


Ravel died in 1937 after suffering for five years from progessive aphasia.

While his creativity stayed alive, the music that was still being created in his brain remained trapped there.

How it feels to have a Stroke

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor


Fascinating account of the stroke this neuroanatomist suffered.

Newsweek

In the Land of Aphasia by Banu Turhan


A stroke left me unable to communicate and my doctors thought I wouldn't speak again. But with the help of therapists and a loving family, I proved them wrong..

Aphasia sufferer finding herself a new voice

Woman uses technology to help communicate


I had been trying for quite a while to get a journalist to interview one of my clients. It finally happened. She has been such a hard worker and an inspiration to others.

It really shows how the use of technology can help people with aphasia- even 18 years post onset. I hope that it offers new hope for people with aphasia and encourages them to try get help. I also hope it increases awareness of the public to the challenges of aphasia.

Joan Green, speech and language therapist, USA

Struggle for words frustrates

Shrapnel from a roadside bomb ripped into skull


One year after Bob Woodruff spoke about his brain concussion on an ABC documentary, he is busy flying around the world on assignments and continuing to draw attention to the signature injury of the war in Iraq: traumatic brain injury..

BBC interview with Dr Jenny Dautlich, chairman AphasiaNow

conducted via mobile phone during our 2007 conference

BBCR4Jenny


Sept 17, 2007 - BBC Radio 4

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