'Dumbstruck'
by playwright Nick Darke, who recorded his Aphasiahttp://nickdarke.net/otherwork/dumbstruck/
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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!
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
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