About Aphasia

• My Uncle finds his voice through writing — Charlotte
• What helps your child find a word without feeling pressured? — Eli Mercer
• What I do when aphasia makes information hard to hold onto — JugglingNothing
• Do you forget it, or can you just not reach it? — Eli Mercer
• My Dad Suddenly Started Speaking Gibberish During a Migraine — Real Ray C
• My Brain Knows the Right Answer, So Why Do I Keep Saying the Wrong One? — Charlotte
• My Grandmother Suddenly Started Speaking Gibberish During a Migraine — JugglingNothing
• Sometimes Silence Is the Answer — Eli Mercer
• I Forgot the Word “Umbrella” and Had to Describe It Instead — Charlotte
• People Think I’m Not Answering, But I’m Still Trying to Speak — Real Ray C
• We thought the swallowing problems were part of aphasia...they weren't. — JugglingNothing
• When the Words Fade, the Person Is Still There — Eli Mercer
• Sometimes the Best Therapy Is Simply Waiting — JugglingNothing
• The hardest part was watching my mom fight for a single word — Charlotte
• Not Every Communication Problem Is Aphasia And Not Every Aphasia Is the Same — Eli Mercer
• Everyone thought it was slurred speech. It turned out to be aphasia. — Eli Mercer
• I Read That Aphasia Isn't Painful... So Why Did My Sister Have Constant Headaches? — Real Ray C
• Going Blank Under Stress Isn't the Same as Aphasia — Eli Mercer
• The Hardest Part of Aphasia Isn't Losing Words, It's Being Underestimated — JugglingNothing
• The biggest gains in my Aphasia recovery came from 10 minutes a day — Real Ray C
• I Thought Speech and Voice Were the Same Thing Until Aphasia Taught Me Otherwise — Real Ray C
• The best therapy I ever received wasn't in a clinic — Eli Mercer
• For Some People, Aphasia Happens Overnight. For Others, It Sneaks In Slowly. — JugglingNothing
• Just Because Someone Can’t Talk Doesn’t Mean They Have Aphasia — Eli Mercer
• We stopped asking ‘what do you want?’ And conversations got so much easier — JugglingNothing
• When almost every part of language is affected... understanding global aphasia — Real Ray C
• They understand you… but getting the words back out is the hard part — Charlotte
• We thought it was just stress… until the aphasia started — Real Ray C
• Just because someone has Aphasia doesn’t mean communication is gone — JugglingNothing
• I thought I was helping… until I learned how to actually communicate with someone who has Aphasia — Eli Mercer
• Watching someone lose words little by little is a different kind of grief — JugglingNothing
• They sound like they’re talking normally… but the words don’t make sense — Real Ray C
• Can anxiety cause aphasia? Here’s what I’ve learned living with it — Charlotte
• What word-finding really feels like — Eli Mercer
• Their mouth works… So why can’t they talk? What aphasia really looks like... — Charlotte
• I Know What I Want to Say… It Just Won’t Come Out — Eli Mercer
• Why music still reaches people with aphasia (even when words don’t) — Charlotte
• Aphasia vs Dyslexia: Let’s clear this up — JugglingNothing
• Living with expressive aphasia and trying to be understood — JugglingNothing
• About Aphasia — Henry-001