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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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Survived.. Now what?
In September 2018, I had a received a medication for migraines that resulted in a brain bleed leading to a hemorrhagic stroke. I was 33. I had a full time job, was the primary "bread winner", and my daughter was only 3 at the time. She was the...
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Speech Therapists are the Trim Tab of Aphasia Recovery
Dear Stroke Suvivors, 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 the edge...
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Help with stroke victim decisions
My had a severe stroke during a heart cath procedure in late august 2020 and the left side of her body has no movement. She is currently home eating and swallowing well talking good, but a lot of crazy talks. I am taking care of her with the help...
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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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Rehabilitation & place in facility
My husband had a stroke 45 days ago. He is going to be placed in a skilled nursing facility. This terrifies me especially because I won't be able to visit him & see how he is being cared for. How can I be certain he is receiving the rehab therapies...
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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 applies learning, one coat 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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