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The following books and other resources will help you to understand the impact of speech language and communication difficulties.
Books
Bauby, J.D./Leggatt, J (Translator) (1998) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
This book is written using an alternative communication system.
Diamond, J. (1998) C Because Cowards Get Cancer Too… London: Vermilion
John Diamond was a journalist and this book recounts his experience of head and neck cancer and the treatments for this disease.
Wyn, N. (2007), Blue Sky July. Seren Books
Nia Wyn writes this book from her journal after her son is born. Her son has cerebral palsy.
Sainsbury, Claire (2009), Martian in the Playground.
Jackson, Luke (2002), Freaks, Geeks and Asperger's Syndrome.
Sacks, Oliver (1989), Seeing Voices’
Maxwell, Grace (2010), Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins
Temple Grandin (2006) Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism. London Bloomsbury
Temple Grandin & Richard Pranek (2013): The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.
Naoki Higashida (2005) The Reason I Jump: One boy's voice from the silence of autism.
Online books
Breaking the Silence. a collection of stories by high-functioning women with autism, the result of the project 'Autism in Pink', supported by The National Autistic Society. http://autisminpink.net/
Online resources
Films by Sarah and her mother Joanie Scott charting Sarah’s life with aphasia after a stroke aged 18 years old:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SymphUK/playlists
AFASIC http://www.afasic.org.uk/
I CAN http://www.ican.org.uk/
Raise Awareness of Language Learning Impairments campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RALLIcampaign
Videos from the Dyscover series: