Returning to Work with Speech Assistance Apps: How Nonverbal Adults Can Reconnect to All Aspects of Life Nonverbal adults who have difficulty speaking and communicating due to conditions such as stroke, brain injury, or physical disabilities caused by surgery (for...
The Bruce Willis Story Brings Awareness to Frontotemporal Dementia This past year, America was shocked when it learned that popular actor Bruce Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia. This came out when the family released a statement on social media that Willis would...
The Power of AAC Apps for Android (and Apple) Devices: A Customer Story about APP2Speak Usually, I use this space to share information that’s helpful to our target audience—people who cannot speak for one reason or another (traumatic brain injury, disease,...
A Curious Situation: When People Who Cannot Speak Won’t Accept Help In my last blog post, I wrote about a challenging situation faced by many people who cannot speak—family members and caregivers who don’t help as much as they could or should. Today, I want to address...
An Often-Overlooked Challenge for People Who Cannot Speak: Families and Caregivers Who Hold Them Back People who cannot speak face significant challenges. First, there’s the inescapable fact of their condition. Once upon a time—prior to the stroke, the brain injury,...
Memory Aids and Memory Strategies for People Struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease Normally, in this blog, I stick to topics that revolve around the challenges faced by people who have lost or are losing their ability to communicate through speech. As the creator of...
