A little hello, from Texas!

I am a new member stroke -3/26/24! I’m one of the lucky ones? Speech and communication are a problem for me, no other physical problems. As a teacher of twenty-seven years, and a word wizard, the stroke this my world up over, a twenty-five year career in the US Marine Corps not helping my ability communication with high school students!

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Hi @CoachB & welcome

You aren’t helped on a forum where most of the users are British by scrambling the date in your American accent :rofl:

There are a few ‘cousins’ from across the pond here as well as one or two folk such as combat aircraft pilots ! There’s a wide mix of folk :slight_smile:

There’s a few other folk who join here recently who have problems with scrambled words They tend to hang out in WhatsApp rather than be quite so active here

If you want to join that here is the link

There’s loads of historical posts here where the advantage over WhatsApp is you can scan back

If you let us know what some of your challenges are we may be able to sign post, If you tell us some of your victories will definitely celebrate with you :slight_smile:

Caio
Simon member SIG

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Hi & welcome to the community @CoachB

Stroke is definitely a life changing event & takes some time to come to terms with.

Kerp practising with the speech & communication side of things. They should start to improve. It really is about repetition…keep trying to talk out loud even if it feels like you’re getting nowhere it is still teaching the brain to learn it again.

All the best

Ann

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Hi Coach,

Welcome. I stroked 2 years ago, but I still teach a few students just to keep me grounded & feeling useful. I’m a violin teacher. Hopefully you’ll improve as you go,

Nice to meet you, ciao, Roland

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