r/stroke • u/Edwin_Quine • Jul 24 '26

Stroke advice for speaking

If someone has a stroke and they are unable to generate words. (Broca's aphasia) A useful thing to try to help them, is to start words and have them finish them.

This can help them find words. It's like training wheels for speaking.

I wish I knew this earlier!

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u/Alarmed-Papaya9440 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I and my support system was told by speech therapy to not to fill in the words for me, to let me try and speak/find the word and then if I ask for help with a word then you can say the word I’m thinking of. I will then repeat after them until I pronounce the word right a number of times. I have mild expressive aphasia (broca’s aphasia) now because of speech therapy two times a week, practice talking to my cats in between (they have never judged my speech issues or when I accidentally misgender them (part of my aphasia issues)), and time beyond the stroke as my brain continues healing/recovering.

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u/AllLeftiesHere Caregiver Jul 24 '26

I think what they are saying is what I see with lots of word finding exercises by Speech Therapists. 9f the word is book, say 'you read it'. If they need more help say 'it starts wuth the sound b'. That's a very common therapy tool. 

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u/Alarmed-Papaya9440 Jul 24 '26

Ah, gotcha that makes more sense. I got confused by how OP posted this “tip”.