A guide for people with aphasia and their loved ones, in order to help them learn how to communicate with each other more effectively.
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The people behind it
Allison Janney
Narrator (voice)
Fifty years ago, Tim McDermit fell 40 feet from his college dorm roof. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder which left him unable to speak. Though 2 million others in the U.S. suffer from aphasia, few have even heard of it. Over the past five decades, Tim has struggled with relearning how to communicate all over again, navigating the social stigmas that come with broken speech, and finally letting go of the life that was snatched away from him.
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A girl searches desperately to fill her insatiable void.
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