Aphasia - the award winning short film
The true story of actor Carl McInty ..
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 ...
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet
In this programme Professor Paul Robertson describes how his wife played this piece to him whilst he lay in a coma.
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
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The entire recording of Dumbstruck is now available online. Click 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.
We regret the Youtube clip is not available any longer.
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
Sept 17, 2007 - BBC Radio 4
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