Aphasia Patients Get Chance to Be ‘Part of Life Again’
Paul Fraser fell to the floor in Byron Bay (NSW) after he was struck unconscious.
Julie Brown, the wife of the victim called 911 immediately to inform them that he likely had a stroke.
“He was speaking gobbledygook,” Brown shared the story with AAP by recalling what happened at their Northern NSW home in August 2021.
“He was speaking like an alien. But now, it’s chalk and cheese.”
Fraser is a former social science teacher who was one of the first to access a high-intensity, new telehealth program for those living with aphasia.
Nationally, more than 140,000 suffer from the condition that limits their ability to communicate. This is usually caused by strokes which damage the parts of the brain involved in language.
University of Queensland’s Aphasia research centre has been developing CHAT for over ten years. This program delivers fifty hours of speech therapy per hour, as opposed to the average of 10 hours in traditional care models.
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