Speech or lack of anyway.

[Wazza84]

Hiya all.

Early on in my rehabilitation after my haemorrhage I was unable to talk in full sentences (for roughly 6 month) and was given this chart to point at letters to spell out words when asking for something etc .

I was curious to know who/if anybody else used one of these charts to help communicate.

[Blossoms2]

❤️ Very different days ay Waz,.

but you didn’t “ point “ to letters, you could only move your eyes at the time, so you would lock on letters with your eyes, I would say Waz spell (pick a word ), it would take a while at first as you scanned the chart for letters to spell the word, the every day/night/week/months the SLT put in consistently n you work so hard too,. Xxxx

[Wazza84 in reply to Blossoms2]

Oh ye I forgot Blossoms2(mam).. you could say I pointed with my eyes 😬x

[Hidden]

Definately yes.

Only problem was people around me started getting annoyed and impatient with me trying to spell out the words and taking longer than they wanted to hang around and see what I was saying.

With that being said..it gave me alot of frustration and anger.

Along with 4 plus head injuries,stroke,additional TIA's,I also landed up with DYSTONIA (neurological condition that affects your muscles).Doctors cant say the exact cause of the Dystonia but "head trauma" is on the list.With having it..when I have an Episode,I lose my speech and I sound like Im deaf.I get 2-4 Episodes a month,so talking to people is again super frustrating BUT not much I can do till my speech comes back.

I think the alphabet board is good if you have ALOT of patience.

[Wazza84 in reply to Hidden]

Hiya hippolove1.

I’m lucky to have patient people around me especially my mam who helped the speech therapist in gettin my speech back, my speech these days is far from perfect but at least I can talk 😁

[Hidden in reply to Wazza84]

Thats wonderful to hear u have great support thats" patient".

I wish you nothing but the best in your recovery.

[Wazza84 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks.. good luck to you too

[Juniorbhoy]

Hiya my husband was attacked back in December and suffered a brain injury. 10 months later and he still can’t talk. We are both staying at a rehab unit where he is receiving SLT 4 days a week. We used this board also but my husband found it very frustrating. In his head there is no problem with his speech so it took us a long time to deal with that problem and he would use this board but wasn’t happy about it. Even now he can’t speak and we are using “key words” written down. Every day is a challenge but he’s with us and that’s a miracle in itself. I wish you the best of luck in your recovery xx

[Wazza84 in reply to Juniorbhoy]

Hiya Juniorbhoy.

I’m sorry to hear about your husband, it’s horrific how somebody can do such a thing.. time seems to be the best healer with brain injuries..

I found the board frustrating at times to and I had “key words” written down.

Im very lucky to be where I am today however I was born with an AVM and what happened to your husband was so bad.

I wish your husband all the best in his recovery and really hope your able to cope with it all.