The Suspect Speaker

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>The Suspect Speaker </strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>There are fifteen short <strong>short</strong> stories in this volume.</p><p><br></p><p>All the stories are about people who have difficulty in spoken communication. </p><p><br></p><p>People with aphasia. </p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p>These stories contain a taste an inkling of what it is to have aphasia: the frustrations the anger the acceptance and the blessings. </p><p><br></p><p>People with aphasia have individual communication difficulties: </p><p><br></p><p>Some can't read very well or their attention span is fatigued. </p><p>Some have lost some vision. </p><p>Some can't write but their vocabulary is adult. </p><p>Some can't find the sense in syntax or they lack context or comprehension. </p><p>Most understand the words but can't pronounce them.</p><p><br></p><p>Each story here has three versions: A B and C. </p><p>The A version is for people who have aphasia that have difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact and descriptions are sparse. </p><p><br></p><p>The C versions is for people with aphasia who can read or who like to be read to by their supporters/carers. </p><p><br></p><p>The B versions are in-between - a therapeutic 'sandwich'. People who have aphasia can get the gist of the stories from the A version and in recovery over time can extend their reading ability for the B or C stories.  </p><p><br></p>