Day nine

Monday August 13 ~ speech therapy:My speech therapist isn’t just dealing with my speech. That’d be too narrow-focused. She’s also dealing with the mental skills that underlie speech. Skills I need to translate concepts into spoken words as well as words back into concepts. We get past the slurry speech issue and begin working on verbal memory, which I know didn’t work all that well to begin with. We take turns conjuring-up words for items in the food department (lexical retrieval) ..and repeat the growing list of items back to each other as we go (verbal short term memory). We play a game like charades to see how fast we can explain words before the other gets it (semantic processing). It’s fun working with Holly.