I am a US Naval Academy graduate, submariner, shipbuilder, business owner, and received a research PhD late in life at the Heller School at Brandeis University. I graduated in 2006 and went to Vassar for a semester, then back to the Heller School as assistant and then associate dean in career services and admissions until I had my stroke and aphasia in 2011. I lost my language (from aphasia) and could not read, write or speak well, but I got better!
I speak around the country about stroke, aphasia and plasticity, the foundation for all learning. My fourth book, The ABCs of Aphasia was published May 2020 and my fifth book, Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Metaphors Help Us Mend was published March 2022. Ask me more at tbroussa@comcast.net or www.strokeeducator.com or www.AphasiaNation.org for more info...I am called the Johnny Appleseed of Aphasia Awareness...for a reason...ask me! Tom Broussard