Talking

Talking problems include the following areas:

• Expression
  word-finding problems
  sentence construction
  
• Understanding
  working out what you have said following conversations
  
• Reading
  understanding words on paper
  reading aloud
  
• Writing
  working a pen on paper
  relearning how to sign one's own name
  
• Numeracy
  relating numbers to objects
  counting money

We can provide words, pictures and exercises which stimulate recovery of the ability to talk. These need to be graded week by week, to lead the gradual process of recovery. At first simple schematic drawings of familiar objects may elicit their names. The process may arrive finally at a discussion about a newspaper article.

For help on any of these talking issues, click Therapy