@Stringyj it’s so good to read how far your husband has come in 9 months. I am sure it has taken much hard work for both of you.
Your story about your daughter seeing her dad for first time in a while bought tears to my eyes. That must have been a very special moment.
Beat wishes
Ann
Thanks very much for the tips, will get some of these and try. We’ve mentioned it to the doctors at the hospital and they haven’t said much apart from some folk regain and some don’t so that wasn’t very helpful really.
Hi @p4wsp and a belated welcome to the forum.
Taste and smell may just be a temporary disruption that will switch back on sometime in the first 6-8mths after a stroke. Basically everything gets disrupted in some way after a stroke. I suppose you could liken it to a fuse blowing in your house and every shuts down on that circuit route until you’ve isolated, repaired/removed the cause that tripped the switch. Only then will you really know if it’s temporary or permanent.
As for speech, we were still in lock down when I had my stroke. I did have a speech and language therapist, but that was by phone and I really struggled so ditched it. So my main therapy was reading out loud, singing is also good for aphasia, so maybe he could sing along to his favourite music.
Also just keying in ‘speech and language therapy after stroke’ on the internet or youtube will bring up lots of helpful sites. The same goes for ‘singing lessons for stroke’ Just tagging on ‘stroke’ to the end of search text will bring up lots of related sites to explore.
Unfortunately I can’t remember the ones I used way back in the beginning and don’t really need them now. For me now, 3½yrs on, I’d say my speech is about 85% recovered. My voice takes time to waken up in the morning and tends to slur towards the end of the day now. And getting certain words out can have me stuttering. But on the whole it’s good and gets me what I need 
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me, we shall try these.
It’s still very early in my husband’s process and we both hope and pray things will return to normal as they can be in the future
It’s all very frustrating as you well know
You will both learn to relax into this new norm, it just takes a little, but you will get there Stay strong and take good care of you too 