Aphasia Awareness Month | Stroke, Recovery and June 16 Madison CT Program

Recovery and Hope After a Stroke or Brain Injury.

It’s Aphasia Awareness Month.

About 2 million Americans have aphasia.

Many of us are struggling with speaking, reading, writing, or understanding language after a stroke or brain injury.

Aphasia can be frustrating, isolating, exhausting, and invisible to other people.

Speech therapy can help tremendously.

But therapy is often limited by insurance, cost, transportation, fatigue, or the simple shortage of speech-language pathologists.

And recovery does not end after a few months.

Many people continue working for years to improve communication and rebuild their lives.

That is one reason National Aphasia Association Ambassadors across the country are working hard this month to increase awareness.

Here on the Connecticut shoreline, we are holding an Aphasia Awareness program on June 16, 2026, at the Scranton Library in Madison, Connecticut.

Speech-language pathologist Shari Mayerson, M.S., CCC-SLP, will talk about the brain and aphasia.

Paula Gallagher and I will share our experiences living with aphasia after stroke.

We hope this event helps people with aphasia, families, friends, healthcare professionals, and community members better understand what aphasia is — and what life with aphasia can look like.

People can still learn.

People can still improve.

And people with aphasia still have voices worth hearing.