The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and Found
The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and Found The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and Found OTHER ARTICLES There are no words to fully describe the heartbreak of losing the ability to communicate. Only those who have experienced this loss can give us a look inside such silence. In The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist's Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and Found, the author has given a voice to thirteen people whose communication abilities have been compromised by stroke, illness, head injury, or conditions such as cleft palate, stuttering or deafness. Multi-lingualism is highlighted as a potential liability. Some regained lost abilities, others will continue to live with impairments for the rest of their lives. Others continue to improve with time, effort and further speech therapy. From the heart, these thirteen people open up to share their experiences and feelin...