Sarah Scott suffers from Broca's aphasia. In 2013, Sarah appeared on a Channel 4 TV program called The Undateables. Unfortunately, this program can only be viewed in the UK, but Channel 4 has put a short bit up on YouTube (for some reason, even this YouTube video is not embeddable). This short clip from the video shows what Sarah's life was like before her stroke. https://youtu.be/SFeFzm4GX6g
Sarah Scott suffered a stroke in 2010, at the age of 18. Ever since then, with the help of her dedicated mother and many other people, Sarah has been slowly recovering from Broca's aphasia (expressive aphasia), a condition that makes it difficult to read and write and express oneself in syntactically correct sentences.
In July and August of 2014, Sarah Scott went to Florida to receive six weeks of intensive aphasia therapy. Here is a series of videos she posted on YouTube to keep us posted. Keep it up, Sarah! We're so proud of the progress you have made!
This video marks Sarah's first day of therapy in a small clinic somewhere in Florida. Sarah explains that she spent most of her day doing tests and getting used to the environment.(Originally posted on July 22, 2014)
This video marks Sarah's first full week of therapy. Apparently, the type of therapy she is receiving here is not available in England. How sad! Sarah mentions that she has trouble remembering more than one number.
(Originally posted on
July 29, 2014)
Sarah has now completed two weeks
of therapy. She is continuing to work on numbers and has started to work on pronouns. Sarah seems to express some reservations about doing therapy five years after her stroke, but she does think it is a good idea.
(Originally posted on August 5, 2014)
This video was posted after the third week
of therapy. Sarah is still working on numbers. In fact, she mentions that when she was at home, she never used to answer the phone because she was afraid she would need to write down a time or a phone number. This week, Sarah is also working on sound-spelling correspondences to help her when reading.
