Brain Friends
Brain Friends the podcast is a space for neuro nerds and stroke survivors to talk about all things aphasia, language recovery, and community. Hosted by Dr. D. Seles, a neuroscientist and speech-language pathologist, and Angie C., 2x stroke survivor and aphasia advocate. Listen, laugh, and learn with these two stakeholders determined to make a difference in aphasia advocacy.
Brain Friends
Aphasia Matters
In this episode of Brain Friends we talk about having aphasia on vacation, paraphrasing as a successful communication tool, and #aphasia trending after a celebrity diagnosis.
Angie shares fluency and relaxation tips important for airport travel and social communication with friends and family.
Dr. Seles learns the importance of making sure practitioners and researchers focus on functional language that helps with community integration of social activities like dining out.
Together we address an ongoing question in the field, if practitioners should still classify aphasia types? We end this episode with a question everyone listening should answer and ask someone with aphasia. “What do you wish more people knew about aphasia?