Learning how to speak after debilitating illness

A Step-by-Step Aphasia Workbook for Adults: 125 Engaging Exercises & Progressive Activities to Boost Speech Therapy & Enhance Cognitive Skills for Stroke Recovery & Rehabilitation by Clare Thinkwell

A Step-by-Step APHASIA workbook for Adults by Clare Thinkwell; Matilda’s Magical Muse; 111pp.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Aphasia, a speech disorder, usually results from an ischemic stroke that causes injury to certain parts of the brain that controls communication and cognition. The results of a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or more commonly as a stroke, are often devastating for individuals. There is a significant rate of mortality associated with CVA, those who survive often have deficits and need to relearn basic human functions including but not limited to speech, eating, walking, writing, thinking, cognitive reasoning, among others. Recovery is slow and painful, but with the right tools and therapies many individuals make an almost complete recovery from the effects of CVA.

Aphasia can be mild or severely debilitating deficit resulting from a CVA. Individuals who experience aphasia cannot speak, communicate, and/ or make their wishes/ needs known to others. For these individuals a regimen of speech exercises, therapy, and consistency is the only road to recovery. In this situation books like A Step-by-Step APHASIA workbook for Adults by Clare Thinkwell can be a great resource to relearn, develop, and regain communication skills. Thinkwell is dedicated to helping seniors and adults improve cognition and communication skills. Her passionate engagement has resulte din several books that help stimulate minds, and nurture creativity.

The Step-by-Step APHASIA workbook for Adults features over 100 engaging verbal and non-verbal exercises, and activities that progress slowly which are aimed at enhancing cognitive skills and improving speech therapy results. Following these activities are crucial for recovering from stroke and rehabilitation to independent life after CVA. Divided into five distinctive sections, this book features exercises to help patients rehab quickly from CVA. Each chapter/ section of the book deals with a specific verbal/ communication skill such as vocabulary building, sentence formation, reading comprehension, daily communications, and practical skills. The final section provides answers to each of these sections.

There are no meandering passages or droning preaching in this book. Each page contains an exercise or puzzle that helps improve cognition, and communication. The book will be helpful for anyone that works with seniors in rehabilitation or individuals who are affected by this devastating condition.

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