The Suspect Speaker

The Suspect Speaker

There are fifteen short short stories in this volume.

All the stories are about people who have difficulty in spoken communication.

People with aphasia.

Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease.

Rather than a biography or an academic text, these stories reflect the everyday experience of people with aphasia, their supporters and carers. In these tales, they will see themselves or their loved ones.

These stories contain a taste, an inkling, of what it is to have aphasia: the frustrations, the anger, the acceptance and the blessings.

People with aphasia have individual communication difficulties:

Some can't read very well, or their attention span...