Hey there, Consider This listeners. We're back with another Saturday bonus episode for you.

It's part of our new series of short form audio documentaries. It's a story about speech and silence,

about loneliness and joy, even small joys, like biting into a peach. So stick around.

From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow.

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It's considered this from NPR. There are at least two million people in America who have

thoughts and ideas that they can't put into words. People who have had strokes or traumatic

brain injuries often live with aphasia, difficulty using language, both written and spoken.

But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain, so people with

aphasia can often sing.

This is the aphasia choir of Vermont, founded more than a decade ago by former speech-language

pathologist Karen McFeeders-Leary.

And today, for our weekly segment of short-form audio documentaries, we are going to meet

one of the members of the choir.

This story is brought to us by Erica Heilman from the podcast Rumblestrip.

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