Yesterday, I said "get a good speech pathologist...." like it was something that everyone has support for the costs of the outpatient speech pathologist services. But, not people with aphasia can get access for outpatient speech pathologist services. Plus the waiting list is very long, the appointment times are fixed/capped and treatment is not enough to recover. Especially, if you need back to work recovery.
Nova Scotia has beds in the Provincial rehabilition centre for post-stroke recovery sometimes for 3 months stints. Speech treatments one time a day for 45 minutes for 4 days a week.
When you are discharged from the rehabilition centre, you are referred to the Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centre. It took 6 months after I was discharged (January 2009) to get a call from the speech pathologist assigned to my case. Then, when I got 12 sessions (1 hour x 1 week), I was kicked to the curb and referred again to put my name on the waiting list for speech pathologist services...again.
This is why I'm lobby our Provincial Government to have better treatment for people with aphasia and continuing education of people with aphasia and education for speech pathologist and outpatient speech pathology services supplemented with the governmental purse.
AND, our Federal Government's support for research for better aphasia treatment and education of aphasia for health professionals. AND, education for the people of Canada by the Federal Government. Most people have never heard the word "aphasia". I didn't know anything before "stroke day"! Did you or your family and friends know anything about aphasia?
Most people know stroke.....even symptoms and what to do during a stroke - 911! But, often you visualize the injuries of stroke, it is the physical movements of stroke you think of. Thirty percent (30%) of people who have a stroke have aphasia. If the people who had a stroke in a year was 2,000.....30% of them have aphasia = 600. Six hundred a year added to the 600 people last year added to the 600 people before the previous year added to etc., etc......
Ironic: We need to talk about aphasia!
Talk about a language immersion program in a foreign language landscape...without any people who speak YOUR language!
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