Nov 27, 2015

Harvey Alter became a victim of Aphasia after a successful career as a Criminologist.
He worked with several speech therapists and became a solid public speaker, after the onset of his aphasia. He created the International Aphasia Movement, to provide help to adults who suffer from aphasia.
From lack of blood flow to the brain areas that modulate language. A contemporary study of many of the soldiers who returned from our overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq has found a great deal of Traumatic Brain Injury.
This is similar to a post stroke or violent crime victim.
Harvey provided a multi-session approach of small workshops to rebuild those damaged skills, allowing the brain to retrain unused areas in the undamaged sections of one’s brain. It is very repetitive work, and many clients take a break from time to time, but they do come back for more practice.
The program does help to train speech therapists who are close to graduating.
His last few years were very trying on him. We will miss him greatly.

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