Whether just recovering from a stroke or several years past, these services may be beneficial not only to language skills, but also to the emotional well being of the clients and their families.

Carol Dow-Richards, BS Psychology, has been an advocate for people with aphasia since 1995, when her ten-year-old son, David, suffered a massive stroke.

Carol began Aphasia Connection to help meet the needs of families struggling with aphasia. She focuses not only on the issue of aphasia itself, but its broad impact on the life of the entire family.

You can email Carol (please put in “Aphasia” on Subject line) at theaphasiafamily@aol.com.

To read her son David’s account, please Click Here .

Carol was also recently interviewed by Northwestern University and is a featured speaker at their 2008 conference.