Aphasia Awareness May Not Be Enough. Here's How to Start Rebuilding | #200
You used to talk to anyone. The cashier. The neighbor. The guy at Home Depot. Now you sit in the car with your aphasia and let your wife go instead.
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In this episode I talk about Jerry. Four years post-stroke. His world had gotten tiny. He didn't see his own responsibility in getting back to himself. He felt that traditional rehabilitation and speech therapy didn't fully preparing him for real-world challenges.
Three things came out of that conversation.
- His world shrank because shame was driving…
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