Dysarthria

The good thing about having a stroke….

My voice teacher is one of the coolest people I’ve ever met in my life.  He’s awesome.  We’ve discovered recently that I have what would have been in my previous life a pretty good singing voice, had it been trained. … Read More ›

Speech Therapy

I had dinner with a friend tonight who brought along another friend.  This friend of my friend’s happens to be a speech therapist.  She knows that I had a stroke and was asking me some questions.  I explained my anger at my… Read More ›

Dysarthria

When I started writing this blog, I hadn’t found my voice.  Writing voice, that is.  When I started writing this, I was just a physical therapist who had a stroke and I thought that I knew some stuff.  I’m still… Read More ›

Conversation

I started speech therapy again today.  I do therapy at a university so I follow a college schedule.  I’ve said before that the absolute number one thing that bothers me is my speech. Don’t get me wrong, lots of things… Read More ›

My Speech – Dysarthria

There are a lot of things that can happen to your speech after a stroke.  It depends on where in the brain you stroked, how long it was before treatment, the severity of the stroke, etc.  Strokes are very individual. … Read More ›