More Suspect Speaking: More of the frustrations and blessings of life with aphasia (The Suspect Speaker Series, Band 2) - Softcover

Stephens, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047365881X ISBN 13: 9780473658816

Verlag: DMS Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Suspect Speaker brought enjoyment, sadness, pathos and – for some – a realisation of how people cope, or not, with aphasia. More Suspect Speaking (Edition 2) features another fifteen short short stories featuring people who have difficulty in spoken communication. People with aphasia.
[Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury.]
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.
The vocabulary of these stories are deliberately adult because aphasia doesn't diminish intellect.
People with aphasia have individual communication difficulties:

• some can't read very well, or their attention span is fatigued;
• some have lost some of their vision so it makes it hard to read text;
• some can't find the sense in the syntax;
• some lack contextual understanding, or comprehension of ideas;
• some understand the words, but they can't pronounce them;
• some insert other words or phrases instead of the ones they actually mean.

More Suspect Speaking stories give a taste of what aphasiacs go through.
More of the frustrations and blessings of life with aphasia.
Every day.
Every conversation.

Each story (except the last one) has three versions: A, B and C.

The A version is people who have an effort or difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact, the layout is spacious, and descriptions are sparse – perfect for people recovering from the effects of aphasia.
The C versions are for people who can read ('recovered' aphasiacs?) or people with aphasia who enjoy been read to – by carers, family members, supporters.
Or, for non-aphasiacs, these stories contain an inkling of what people with aphasia deal with.
The B versions are in-between. For some people with aphasia, re-reading the stories in their recovery could be therapeutic.

[The second edition of the paperback/softcover has bigger font for the A and B versions (easier to read for people with aphasia) and footnotes rather than a glossary for Aotearoa/New Zealand or unfamiliar terms.]

Enjoy.

A review from the President of National Aphasia Association (USA): Darlene Williamson, MA, CCC-SLP,

The Suspect Speaker series by James Stephens

The Suspect Speaker series [The Suspect Speaker & More Suspect Speaking] is very unique and emotional, and the books are aphasia friendly! In each book author James Stephens presents a series of stories describing events with aphasia. Most importantly, each story has three levels of reading to accommodate readers with aphasia: an easy level, an intermediate level, and a more advanced level. A perfect way to tell his stories and reach all people with aphasia. Highly recommended for readers with aphasia and their supporters and care partners.

The Suspect Speaker: https://books2read.com/suspectspeaker
More Suspect Speaking: https://books2read.com/moresuspectspeaking

National Aphasia Association
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James Stephens was an Irish author and artist who lived from February 9, 1880, to December 26, 1950. Stephens' father died when he was two years old, and his mother remarried when he was six. For begging on the streets, Stephens was sent to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys in Blackrock, where he spent most of the rest of his youth. Before he became a solicitor's clerk, he went to school with his adopted brothers Thomas and Richard (Tom and Dick) Collins. They participated in and won a number of sports events, even though James was very short. People loved him and called him "Tiny Tim." He became very interested in military bravery after hearing stories about his adoptive family. He would have become a fighter if he wasn't so tall. Stephens became more interested in socialism and the Irish language in the early 1900s. By 1912, he was a committed Irish Republican. He was good friends with the leader of 1916, Thomas MacDonagh. At the time, MacDonagh was editor of The Irish Review and deputy teacher at St. Enda's, PH Pearse's radical bilingual Montessori school. Later, he became manager of the Irish Theatre.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DMS Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 047365881X
• ISBN 13: 9780473658816
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 297
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