tizzylizzy Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 My lovely French neighbour has just suffered a stroke. We initially thought she has come through it remarkably well except for problems with speech. Before the stroke she was bi-lingual, being really fluent in English. Now she does not speak English at all and has also problems remembering her words in French. However we have also noticed that she is having a problem with her numbers. She cannot write the correct words for a given number. For example she wrote down 'sept' when shown the number 9. She has asked me to help re-learn her numbers and I wondered when French children first learn their numbers at school if they use any visual learning aids? Incidentally she can write down the correct words for the numbers in English! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Forgive me for not answering your question directly - I don't know the answer! - but I do know from having shared a rehab' unit with a number of stroke victims that they do have very particular speech and reading problems - hence the unit I go to has a team of specialist staff for just these kinds of problems. There's a lot of info' plus some local organisations on the aphasia website:http://www.aphasie.fr/They might well be able to help you both. Round here (don't know where you are based) there are monthly meetings for patients and staff to give them help and support for just the kinds of problem you describe.For a start, the website leads you to this:http://donnerlaparole.sourceforge.net/http://www.aphasie.fr/livres/Livres-3.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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