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Aphasia is
a loss of language that
has a variety of different etiologies.
One common etiology is stroke,
but anything that impinges on the language centers of the brain
could cause Aphasia, a loss of language, reading, listening, speaking and writing.
I don't know. I didn't feel anything. I woke up and
I was swerving back-and-forth and
and I realize that
the car was going back-and-forth.
He was driving on some back roads
and he did have an accident as he said he was just in the car slumped over
uh... just with a very stared look on his face.
and um...
the cops had told me that he had a stroke.
The social approach in Aphasia therapy
is a very powerful approach because the clients are able to talk about how it feels to
live with a chronic disability and they're able to support and heal each other a lot
more effectively and often family members don't understand what it's like to live with
the communication disorder so their bonds become very immediate and very powerful.
And I think that the group also helps very much
because they're interacting with each other
and they're not ashamed of the way they talk
and I think that it brings
out... the more he talks
the more he speech improves. When Ivan started the group
and he could barely get three words together and get his point across
and slowly, slowly
and he worked hard and was able to get his point across and recover
from his uh... severe Aphasia
and he became the hero of the group.
I make noises...
Okay I want...
fish! Fish! okay...
and she says okay...
now I understand what you're talking about.
She tunes
me out and she listens to what I have to say and she understands what I'm dealing with.
Okay, he wants fish. I think that the person though on the other end uh...
needs to have a lot of patience
uh... sometimes you feel like pulling
the words out of his mouth.
If you really know the person
you sort of know what they want to say, but not all the time. It doesn't
you know doesn't work that way this sometimes that I
wish that I do you what he wanted to say
and sometimes he just needs to
step back and kind of relax
and sometimes then the words just
flow once he relaxes.
Even though I get mad and mad and I say I'll do it later on
uh...
It's hard. It's hard. Let's put it that way. It's hard,
but I have to be
positive
and I have to figure it out and I want to
get better, back and forth.
Whatever I have to do
I'm gonna do it!
He has a great outlook and and that's
that's the most important thing that he has
of good outlook and a good
uh... disposition
and he's not mad about it. A lot of people are very angry that they had the stroke
uh... but now he just feels like look I'm here
and I'm just going to take every day as it comes and just make the best of it and that's why
we try to do whatever we can
to just go ahead.
We're a young couple
and we have a lot of life
left to us. We have a lot of things that we want to do
and to we're going to do them!