My husband had a stroke whilst on a ventilator for double pneumonia in June 22 at the age of 48. His automatic speech has improved significantly but he has real trouble in word finding. He knows exactly what he wants to say but life has become like a constant game of charades until we guess what he is trying to say. He wouldn’t be able to relay a conversation he has had so someone needs to take phone calls and go with him for appointments. My main issue is he cannot read or write and can’t articulate what he is experiencing. If we write a word and ask him to point to the object he can do that but can’t read a sentence. This makes his world so much smaller as he now cannot work, read or send texts to his mates. Any advice on how others have had experience of this would be greatly appreciated. He has had SALT but they just agree at how frustrating it must be 
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