A brain injury can affect our communication abilities by impairing hearing, the muscle movements of speech, or the cognitive processes that turn our thoughts into words.
Communication problems vary, depending on an individual’s personality, pre-injury abilities, and the severity of the brain damage. Typical effects may include:
- slow or slurred speech
- difficulty swallowing
- drooling or a nasal tone
- problems with finding the right words
- trouble with understanding others
- see
http://synapse.org.au/information-services/communication-disorders-after-a-brain-injury.aspx
from
https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/
About craig lock
www.craiglockbooks.com
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About the Author
Craig has a 'passion' for writing books that tell stories about people doing positive things in this often so hard, sometimes unkind world, occasionally cruel, yet always amazing world - true stories that leave the reader feeling uplifted, empowered and hopefully even inspired.
Craig Lock loves to encourage and empower people to be the best they can possibly be, and to create what they want in life. Craig has learnt plenty from the "school of life" (still "battered and bruised") and also from a few "hard knocks on the head". He is an extensive world traveller (on a "shoestring budget") and failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life’s savings on airfares. He is still sliding down the razor blade of life on the beautiful undiscovered island that is New Zealand, somewhere near the bottom (rude!) of the world near Antarctica. There he talks to the 60 million sheep! Craig has been involved in the corporate world (life assurance) for "many moons". However, through a rather strange (and unique) set of circumstances and finding himself in a small town near the bottom of the world ...and with nothing else to do, he started writing. That was five years ago. Five published books later and having written another twenty manuscripts (now 300 + on widely differing subjects - well what else is there to do here?)... this is where Craig is in the "journey/adventure" that is life. Craig has run a run a successful creative writing course (not teaching sheep!) at the local Polytechnic. He was the author of (as far as we know) the first creative writing course on the internet. He has many varied interests and passions and is particularly interested in the field of psychology – studying the human mind and what makes different people "tick-tock grandfather clock". He is fascinated by the "overlap between psychology and the dimension of spirituality".
One of his missions in life is helping people make the most of their hidden potential and so finding their niche in life... so that they are happy.
Craig’s various books probably tell more about his rather "eventful" life best (no one could believe it!). He writes books with serious messages and themes, then as a contrast "rather crazy, wacky stuff"…to keep him sane here. As an ‘anonymouse’ person wrote: "All of us are born mad; some of us remain so."
Well nothing else much happens in quiet provincial New Zealand, other than headlines like "Golf Ball Thrown at Policeman" and "Beach Toilet Closed for Season.". True!
from
http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html
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PPS
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
Sharing some Information and Thoughts on Head and Brain Injury 
It is so embarrassing – I drool! Not too much, thankfully, but often saliva dripples from my mouth, especially at the corners that never now form a perfect seal… Worse for me though is swallowing: I am not too bad with food, but I cannot time my swallow with liquids and it often goes down the wrong pipe causing lots of couging and sometimes choking. Other people can feel very upset by this…I tell them it’s normal…Normal for me… It’s NOT normal 😛
Then the brain fog when I am half way through a sentence and I freeze, trying to find the word that was in my mind moments before. When the sentence is finally complete I am met with a pardon, because I have been concentrating so hard on finding the right words I have not been concentrating on actually speaking and the words have all been slurred. It’s fine, they say and carry on speaking. Usually I am okay, but sometimes I stand staring at them, as their words pass me by not understood. Life can be horrible!
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