Highly recommended for readers with aphasia and their supporters and care partners.

Darlene Williamson, MA, CCC-SLP, President of NAA (National Aphasia Association-USA)

More Suspect Speaking

More Suspect Speaking features another fifteen short short stories featuring people who have difficulty in spoken communication. People with aphasia.

[Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury.]

Rather than a biography or an academic text, these stories reflect the everyday experience of people with aphasia, their supporters and carers. In these tales, they will see themselves or their loved ones.

The vocabulary of these stories are deliberately adult because aphasia doesn't diminish intellect.

More Suspect Speaking stories give a taste of what aphasiacs go through.

More of the frustrations and blessings of life with aphasia.

Every day.

Every conversation.

Each story (except the last one) has three versions: A, B and C.

The A version is people who have an effort or difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact, the layout is spacious, and descriptions are sparse – perfect for people recovering from the effects of aphasia.

The C versions are for people who can read ('recovered' aphasiacs?) or people with aphasia who enjoy being read to – by carers, family members, supporters.

Or, for non-aphasiacs, these stories contain an inkling of what people with aphasia deal with.

The B versions are in-between. For some people with aphasia, re-reading the stories in their recovery could be therapeutic.

His stories are both moving and funny. They are also encouraging and uplifting. AphasiaNZ highly recommends Stephens's book to anyone with experience of aphasia.

AphasiaNZ

Very often, we hear what the protagonist is thinking, and wince at what happens when they try to get it out. It’s a helpful device, but it’s also Stephens's truth, and the truth for thousands of other New Zealanders hit by strokes or tumours, injuries or primary progressive aphasia.

Catherine Woulfe | Books editor | Spinoff

Stephens's writing will serve to be an inspirational therapeutic tool for many others living with Aphasia and their whanau/families. Thank you for sharing insights into what it is truly like to live with this hidden disability.

Naomi Bondi. NZSLT - NZ Speech Language Therapist

The Suspect Speaker series [The Suspect Speaker & More Suspect Speaking] is very unique and emotional, and the books are aphasia friendly! In each book author James Stephens presents a series of stories describing events with aphasia. Most importantly, each story has three levels of reading to accommodate readers with aphasia: an easy level, an intermediate level, and a more advanced level. A perfect way to tell his stories and reach all people with aphasia. Highly recommended for readers with aphasia and their supporters and care partners.

Darlene Williamson, MA, CCC-SLP, President of NAA (National Aphasia Association-USA)

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