Brain Injury Support Group
Traumatic brain injury occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head injury. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. Outcome can be anything from complete recovery to permanent disability or death. A coma can also affect a child's brain.
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Have you had vision therapy? I had the same problem with writing - everything came out all mixed up. it was due to damage to the parietal lobe in my brain.
It's difficult for me to read your writing to be honest. Can you speak ok?
a million different therapys till tht insurance ran out. A big one was some ear crap-inter-something but the money ran out. Was walking in circles, but oh well Oh it was vestibular stuff! I got attacked and they messed my head up! Insurance ran out but that was a big part of it anyway sort of better now
This is their UK helpline number:
Free helpline 0808 800 2244
helpline@headway.org.uk
I copied this from their online booklet also:
Language impairment - aphasia (often called dysphasia)
Covers problems with understanding language and expressing thoughts through language. Also covers problems with reading and writing.
You need to see a decent neurologist I think.
Hope you get some good advice.
Laila
Maybe you could send me a private message and we can exchange phone #'s.
It makes me mad that you've been suffering so long (I think if I recall from reading something you wrote that you were injured in 2011?) It ticks me off that they haven't been giving you therapy for this.
I had 2 different pieces to this. One was that I had damage to the parietal lobe which caused me to read things all mixed up. Upside down, backwards, intertwined.
And then the other piece was that I would think one thing in my head and then I'd write it and something different would come out.
I will tell you that mine was not as severe as yours. But according to my Neuropsychologist this is very, very common with TBI's. So I think it's ridiculous that these Doctors are telling you they have never seen this before.
But I think many of us have been told, at some point, that some symptom or problem we were dealing with was something they never heard of.
In reading more about this, I found that George Washington , Albert Einstein and Agatha Christie all had dysgraphia, but overcame it. The article didn't say how they did, but it was encouraging to read. I wish you the best, and hope you can find doctors that take you seriously and are willing to work with you.