Problems

Peter had to step down as the President of his hobby club because he couldn’t be understood, talk on the phone, send emails or read emails. He was a very social person who enjoyed playing cards and socializing with others in his club.

With Severe Wernicke’s Aphasia, his speech was approximately 40% understandable to untrained listeners due to neologisms (nonsense words) and paraphasias (mistakes that sound similar to the word). He was generally aware that he couldn’t be understood, but had no strategies to help the listeners. He could not fix his speech mistakes, even with assistance. He and his wife were very discouraged. Their primary goal was for Peter to be able to speak more clearly to socialize and attend his hobby club.