It was been an awesome experience working with a woman who has had a stroke and can't speak because of the stroke. The only word that she can say is, "no." While working with her, we worked first to get her to match sounds while singing. Now I have written some simple songs for her to learn with phrases that she wants to be able to say. She can sing a lot more words than she can say right now. Obviously the goal is to get her to be able to say rather than sing some things.
There was something amazing that happened at our last session. One of her favorite phrases is "lock the door" because she is always trying to remind her family to lock the door at night. For a while now she has been able to sing the phrases, and last session she actually said the phrase. That was amazing.
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