Audio Diary

 'Dumbstruck' 

by playwright Nick Darke, who recorded his Aphasia

http://nickdarke.net/otherwork/dumbstruck/

Electronic hand-held writing tablet

MegaBee™ is a writing tablet to aid frequent communication with people who have no, or impaired, ability to speak and cannot write legibly.

Aphasia Poem, by Bernie Rader, Freeport, NY

When I opened my eyes, it was a new world.

No uttered a word or nothing, was a syllable.
Not my name, not my wife, not my childrens
not my hospital room.
like death.
I croaked like a frog, to some other person.
And in a few minutes, it was horror - Buh, Buh, Bah!

Aphasia Had a More Negative Impact on a Person’s Quality of Life than Cancer or Alzheimer’s Disease, by Prof. Chris Code, University of Exeter

Lam and Wodchis (2010) recently conducted a large study of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 66,193 residents in hospital-based long-term care in Ontario, Canada using the minimum data set Health-Status Index (MDS-HSI), a universally used measure based on a range of clinical assessments in all North American long-term care facilities.

Soul Music - Mozart's Clarinet Quintet

In this program Prof. Paul Robertson describes how his wife played this piece to him while he lay in a coma

Apps for speech and language therapy for ALL ages

Aphasia therapy apps for the iPad and iPhone

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Aphasia Software Finder, by Brian Petheram

As information technology becomes ever more a part of everyday life, many people are looking to find software programmes that can help people with aphasia. 

This resource..

Trade Secrets by Richard Denning

Aphasia - an aggressive, bad tempted beast that never gives up - it can attack without warning!  

As communication is the key of all things that brings society together, when you are hit by the " mozzie bite "  itself, everything you know can suddenly become difficult.  

So why do i say its a "mozzie bite"?  

Because...