MY FATHER LOST HIS SPEAKING POWER. PLEASE HELP

Question

On june 2nd my father had a stroke. he is at present 66 years old. The CT SCAN report tells that he have a lacunar infarcts  in left external capsule and left frontoparietal periventricular white matter.As the left side of his brain is affected as a result of his. he could not move his right portion of his body. and the main problem is he can't be able to speak. though he can understand every word of us andtry to communicate with his left hand movement. he opens his mouth to speak but he can't. he can't take this matter that he can't able to utter a sound though he can understand everything and tries very hard to speak. he has been admitted to the hospital for 10 days. at present he is at home and all the time when he is not sleeping he is trying very hard to speak but seeing that he can't able,tears comes to his eyes all the time. His foods and water intakes are normal and he sleeps well. but its very heart breaking to see and realise that he can't speak and extreamely upset. please find me some path for treatment    . I am really feeing very much helpless and sad. thanks in advance.

Londres70 · Answer

My recommendation is for him to get the ST (Speech Therapy) and time will tell if he will regain this back.  You have no control over this unfortunately.  

I wouldn't be listening to whoever is telling you that "speech therapy can't help" because I can tell you they are incorrect.  Yes, it is true that he might never regain his ability to speak even after ST, but that remains to be seen.

You will have to be patient with all this.  There is NO quick fix to this.  WORK with the ST too and get her/his recommendations as to what exactly you can do with him.  

Never heard of any speech "suddenly" returning after going through this.  Doubt that.

sanjeev44 · Answer

yes he has been ordered speech therapy and physiotherapy as well. But everybody around me saying that a speech therapy can't help it. It can come back just suddenly, there is no specific and really helpfull treatment for it. thats why i am asking here that what should i do.? i don't have any idea about it. But i will try my level best to recover his speaking power. so please help me if possible. thanks.