Cryptogenic (Strokes of Unknown Cause)
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Metaphors Help Us Mend…and Learn
Dear Friends and Colleagues, A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things that provide the hidden similarities between them. I had used plenty of metaphors in my life (before my stroke) but I never thought of it as a “thing.”...
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Russian Dolls: The Nested Attributes of Aphasia & Recovery
Dear AHA/ASA Friends, The metaphor of a Russian (or nested) doll is a large part of our public consciousness to help understand one difficult problem or another to be solved. After my stroke and while still unable to express my thoughts (about my...
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Aphasia Recovery & Word-Finding: Neural Knitting by Any Other Name
Dear AHA Friends, It is impossible for me to describe the process of how my brain got better. It is just as difficult to try to explain how knitting works. Like many things, the process of learning is through experiencing the process itself. The process...
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Withdrawing Help Isn’t the Same as Not Helping
Dear Friends and Colleagues, “Hardening off” is the process of toughening vulnerable plants while still inside so that they can live outside successfully. The plants have to be exposed enough to feel the cold without damaging them overtly. The...
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Aphasia Recovery and The Hill We Climb ... Together!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), and as I got better, I started to describe my experience of having fallen off a cliff and climbing back up to describe what I had seen “down there.” My ability...
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Speech Therapists are the Trim Tab of Aphasia Recovery
Dear Colleagues and Friends, A trim tab is a rudder within a rudder. It takes a lot to turn a big ship and requires huge rudders to change course. But they are so big that it often takes another rudder within the rudder. There's a tiny sliver at...
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Aphasia Recovery and Language Repair: Darning the Damaged Neural Fabric from a Stroke
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Over the years since my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), I have continued to educate the public about how the brain works and repairs itself using metaphorical stories about stroke and aphasia recovery. When I
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Who Is Your Stroke Hero?
Survivors, we want to hear from you! We are now accepting nominations for the Stroke Hero Awards until the end of January in the following categories: Pediatric Hero, Survivor Hero, Caregiver Hero, Support Group Heroes, and Group Heroes. Take time to
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Aphasia Decoupage; applying one coat of learning at a time
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We have moved back to Brunswick, ME up from St. Augustine, FL seeing many of our kids and grandkids! This is a new article about aphasia and decoupage. Decoupage is the art of cutting and gluing paper cutouts onto various...
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Depression and Anxiety
At age 31 I had a heart attach. Healed pretty well and spent the next 5 years fairly normal. about 5 years after that I had a TIA that was misdiognosed. That left me struggling to speak. Aphasia I think is what it is called when you can't find the...
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