
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


There are about 15 million people in this world having thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People who have had had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia, or difficulty talking or using language. Their thoughts are intact, but the language gets stuck. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain. People with aphasia can often sing. This is a story about a choir comprised of people with aphasia, and what it's like to struggle for words.
The Aphasia Choir of Vermont
By Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman4.9
11571,157 ratings
There are about 15 million people in this world having thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People who have had had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia, or difficulty talking or using language. Their thoughts are intact, but the language gets stuck. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain. People with aphasia can often sing. This is a story about a choir comprised of people with aphasia, and what it's like to struggle for words.
The Aphasia Choir of Vermont

90,762 Listeners

44,007 Listeners

38,515 Listeners

6,788 Listeners

43,696 Listeners

27,168 Listeners

26,250 Listeners

11,662 Listeners

6,890 Listeners

1,258 Listeners

1,288 Listeners

95 Listeners

122 Listeners

1,103 Listeners

10,154 Listeners

7,706 Listeners

17,802 Listeners

404 Listeners