There are at least two million people in America who have thoughts and ideas they can't put into words. People who have had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia: difficulty using language, both written and spoken. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain, and people with aphasia can often sing. Today in our bonus episode, in partnership with the podcast Rumble Strip, we meet a member of The Aphasia Choir of Vermont.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
What is the focus of this bonus episode of Consider This?
Hey there, Consider This listeners. We're back with another Saturday bonus episode for you. It's part of our new series of short-form audio documentaries. It's a story about speech and silence, about loneliness and joy, even small joys, like biting into a peach. So stick around. From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow. It's Consider This from NPR.
There are at least 2 million people in America who have thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People who have had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia, difficulty using language, both written and spoken. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain, so people with aphasia can often sing.
I like to hold it in my arms and keep it company.
This is the Aphasia Choir of Vermont, founded more than a decade ago by former speech-language pathologist Karen McPheeters Leary. And today, for our weekly segment of short-form audio documentaries, we are going to meet one of the members of the choir. This story is brought to us by Erica Heilman from the podcast Rumble Strip.
Do I ever think,
I will know when to come in. That's Anna King getting ready for her solo with the Aphasia Choir of Vermont. Anna has been living with aphasia for 19 years, struggling with language and with word finding. We take language utterly for granted. We talk and talk. So what is it like to be someone struggling to find words?
And how are they met out in the world of talkers, in a world pretty uncomfortable with silence? Here is a tiny window into Anna's world. Welcome.
Chris, I was thinking more of a fade-out. Yeah, yeah.
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