With respect comes worth

Jasvinder Khosa

I was lucky to be one of the first people with aphasia to be involved with Connect.  Susie Parr interviewed me. Her work later became a book called Talking About Aphasia.  It was the precursor of another book called Aphasia Inside Out: I think this book was the first that placed the experiences of people with aphasia at the centre instead of the usual experts/language therapists etc going on their sweet way giving us the low down on what is like for a person with aphasia!!! You know what I mean….

Feeling for Words – Feeling Forwards

NOTE FROM JASVINDER: Because of my aphasia – what you read has been written step by step, over a long period of time.  It has been regularly revised over several drafts. Even then, I needed a friend to check over with me what I had written and that it made sense to someone else. 

I had a brain haemorrhage in 1992 and I was told I would not be able to walk or talk again.  I was paralysed on the right and had severe aphasia (communication disability). But along with my speech went my sense of self – of who I am. Let me tell you what I mean….