Stroke and Speech Recovery Kits produce remarkable new recoveries at home or in rehab.

Let's Talk software,all 3 guides, card activity sets, tracing sheets WHOLE KIT

The Whole Speech Practice Kit plus Speech Tree WHOLE KIT WITH SPEECH TREE

Let's Talk software,all 3 guides,tracing sheets STARTER KIT Level One

Speech Tree software,all 3 guides, tracing sheets STARTER KIT Level Two

Comes with clear plastic overlay and erasable pen TRACING SHEET SET

No compter? Use the paper version! SPEECH TREE PRINTED VERSION
Let's Talk
Program
Pathway to Recovery
Guide

Caregiver Guide
Rebuilding the Body

Speech Tree
Recovery Plan
Lefty's
Tracing Sheets

Lefty's
Cue Cards


Lefty's
Card Games

Lefty's
 Conversation Pieces

Product Descriptions and Free Samples
 
Our experience has shown that stroke surivivors need a variety of daily activities and exercises in order to recover their speech and independence. They need more than professional therapy and physical care--they need special help and daily tools to help them regain their former abilities. Our Whole Speech Practice Kit, our Starter Kit or our Paper Materials Kit are designed for use in the home OR in combination with therapy.

This page contains samples of products and detailed descriptions to assist you in making your choice and placing your order. If you want to start with just on or two items, refer to the Recovery Plan to see which items to order first. If you have any questions, please feel free to call us toll free at 877-835-3157. We will be happy to help.

Let's Talk  Explore over 130 spoken words found in daily living in this computer CD program. Practice with pictures and human voice sound. This program also has over 250 changeable worksheets with activities to progress from words to phrases and sentences. Includes over 1000 Core Words to add to worksheets and computer screens you can make yourself for unlimited word practice and sentence making. Works well with speech therapy, rehab, care center or at home. This multisensory program, many have said, "made the difference". Award-winning design. How is it different from "Speech Tree" program?

Content includes Parts of the Body or Food, Rooms and items around the house. As you click on the pictures and use your hand to move the mouse to operate the program, you will train signals to go to the other side of the brain. Practice the words with pictures and the sound of human voice, then begin to write the words. The program uses the Sensory Trigger Method which make the touch signals come BEFORE the specially timed sound cue. (See Sensory Trigger Method). It has no distracting sounds and has adult oriented graphics. It is easy for even severe aphasics to operate independently. Once these "anchor words" are planted in the other side of the brain, more words will be attached to them as they progress through the tracing sheets and other materials.

This program works well with speech therapy or for working independently at home. With insurance paying for such a small amount of therapy these days, this program makes the therapy you do get, more effective or fills the bill when therapy is cut off prematurely. Also, many who have had unsuccessful therapy sessions, have been able to return to therapy with more success after doing this program.   Try the free demo.

Pathway to Recovery  Based on years of research, this is the essential piece of the puzzle.  Explaining how and why this approach works when others fail, this guide will help you understand what "family assisted stroke recovery" is and how you can help your family member talk again. This guide has been called "extremely helpful". Recommended to get the most out of the Let's Talk program and the other materials from Stroke Family, as well as formal speech therapy.  Your family will get organized to help them whether they are at home or in a care facility.  Includes the 4 keys to success--four essential factors or techniques for speech recovery, that Barbara discovered, that have been previously unknown or overlooked. No more feelings of hopelessness or helplessness!

The Caregiver Guide  Whether recovering at home or in a care facility, this guide provides essential information about the specific needs of stroke patients. More important, the guide is a frank explanation of information your doctor may not have provided you with or that the care facility needs to do in order to support stroke recovery.  New treatments and some alternative treatments available to stroke survivors are also given in the guide, so families can have a starting point for their own research and decision making. Described as "very helpful", this guide will save you a lot of heart ache, time and money.

Lefty's Tracing Sheets  These tracing sheets quickly provide motivation to retrain the alternate hand to help access new patterning in the brain for speech, while retraining writing in both printed letters and cursive. Already a splash hit, Lefty's Tracing Sheets include 26 key words, one for each beginning phonic sound of the alphabet, plus sets of sheets covering "feelings", "the five senses" and "opposites".  If Let's Talk is "too easy", Lefty's Tracing Sheets may fit the situation better. For most people, it is recommended that they be used together.

Perfect to those without computer access. To learn how Lefty's tracing sheets have already helped someone, go to Lefty Prevents Mishap and Robin's Story. Works well even for beginning levels; vocabulary can easily be expanded to more difficult levels with a little assistance. Based on the most frequently used words in speech--a different set of words than "Let's Talk".

For a sample tracing sheet, Click Here (Please allow enough time for this document to load--it takes longer than a regular web page Use the Back arrow on your browser to return to this page.)

Lefty's Card Games Highly motivating and fun activity for everyone! These cards include a complete set of the most frequently used words in English. The games and activities are based on familiar favorites they will remember how to play and include: Lefty's Word Rummy, Lefty's Word Poker, Unscramble the Words, Lefty's Word Links and more. May be used for speech practice. By using the alternate hand, to arrange the cards, these games help access hidden speech potential plus stimulate word order and combining for both speech and writing.

Full instructions for the games include playing at different levels of difficulty. Lefty's Card Games include easy instructions. Perfect to those without online access or a computer. For those who are already speaking single words or phrases who want to progress to more abstract concepts and longer strings of words. Also for those who have gone through the other Stroke Family programs and are looking for a way to reinforce and expand upon them. Play these games with a non-competitive, fun approach--there's no "win or lose". A coach can be designated to help anyone who needs it. Lefty says:"Everyone must use their alternate or left hand to play the games!" Perfect for Stroke Support groups and rainy days. With a little coaching, you can even play them with your grandchildren. Get the whole family involved!

Helps expand speaking vocabulary and writing with 300 words! You can even make your own cards with the blank cards provided in the boxed kit.

To see sample cards, Click Here 

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Lefty's Conversation Pieces Lefty's got another new card program! Conversation Pieces"s familiar words, phrases, and 3 or 4 word sentences help to trigger speech. Phrases like "salt and pepper" and "I see" are more deeply imprinted and so are more easily triggered. Over 300 expressions will help expand speaking vocabulary to several hundred words and help stimulate and initiate responses in real conversations. Motivation to talk is enhanced with many emotionally charged words and phrases. Abstract words and verbs are more easily accessed because they are connected to concrete words and feelings. Full instructions for several multisensory learning activities are included in the set. Try this level with mild to moderate aphasia. (Stroke survivor should be able to say at least some single words before starting these activities.) Conversation Pieces is an excellent paper-based program for those who find Let's Talk and Lefty's Tracing Sheets too easy or who have gone beyond that level--a bit more challenging than the other two card sets.

The boxed set of cards cover over 300 (each set is different) of the most frequently used words in speech and will provide hours of informal home speech practice materials.

To see sample cards, Click Here 

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Lefty's Cue Cards include all the words in the Let's Talk program and Lefty's Tracing sheets in 2-word combinations, phrases and simple 3 - 4 word sentences!

Lefty's Cue Cards prompt speech while adding the skills of word ordering and combining words for both speech and writing. Excellent companion materials or followup for either Let's Talk or Lefty's Tracing sheets or combine with Lefty's Word Games and Lefty's Conversation Pieces! These cards are good for beginning levels and cover about 400 words using eleven different activities!
 

To view or print out, go to Cue Card Samples

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Rebuilding the Body After Stroke  How is it that we have over 700,000 strokes in the U.S.?  What causes an otherwise healthy person to have a stroke?  What is wrong with our diet?  What natural supplements can enhance recovery?  After a stroke, a person must rebuild their body. The brain controls so many functions in the body, a stroke can cause general weakness and depression that prevents or at least interferes with the recovery of functionality and speech.  More important, brain cells often continue to die after the stroke, due to lack of oxygen and nourishment.  A healing diet is not difficult to accomplish.  It usually involves just a few changes.  New supplements have been found that increase oxygen, circulation and nourishment to strengthen cell walls to promote healing in the brain while improving memory and cognition.  No matter how good your therapy is, your body and brain may not recover fully without enhanced nutrition and supplementation.  What is good for prevention is also good for recovery, so the whole family will be interested in the lifestyle changes that might prevent anyone else from having a stroke.  It is Stroke Family's goal to provide education to reduce the number of strokes, not only in the U.S., but worldwide.  The research is ALL THERE--we just haven't put it all together and done something about it.  Includes gentle exercises and how to treat depression naturally. This guide puts it all together.  It is up to you to do something about it!

Recovery Plan  See how all this fits together!  Go to the Pathway to Recovery Chart.

Free miniguides in every order.  Parts of our two guides are taken out and will be sent with any order. These are "To Do" lists for "Multisensory Learning Tips" (from the Pathway to Recovery guide and "Ways to Help With Stroke Recovery" from the Caregiver guide.  Though not the whole guides, any order will get these plus the Pathway to Recovery Planning Chart.
 

Free SpeechBlockers Chart, Recovery Plan and access to more Stroke and Aphasia resources and solutions with every order!


For more information about this or any questions you have about Stroke Family Speech Practice Kits, call us toll free at 877-835-3157 Someone with years of experience will be happy to talk with you. Free mini-guides with every order. Try the Free demo.

© 2007 Barbara Dean Schacker    Contact:bschacker@strokefamily.org  Updated: 11/26/07

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