Aphasia at Home website and blog
APHASIAatHOME.com is a website and blog offering resources, tools and personal experience for individuals with aphasia and their caregivers. The site provides practical ideas for navigating daily life. The website is based on her own recovery efforts using free or low-cost methods.
Laura Malis worked 30 hours a week for three years to regain language, reading and her brain. In 2025, she worked on writing when she decided to create the website and the blog.
This resource is useful for people with aphasia, their caregivers, family members, speech-language pathologists and other healthcare professionals seeking home-based education materials.
The Blog will add new ideas for language, reading and working on the brain. It will also feature inspired stories from the aphasia community.
About Laura Malis:
Laura Malis had a stroke in 2022 and was diagnosed with aphasia. Speaking…reading…all of it became difficult. She wondered if she’d regain her cognitive function. She entered therapy and did everything possible to improve her language and reading skills. Now she is working on writing again. That is why she developed this new website, Aphasia at Home, and her new blog. Learn more about Laura here.
Here is My Aphasia Journey
I was a professional speaker and a writer. I had a blog. Keith and I took adventures in state and national parks … hiking and canoeing with our dog.
Then my brain changed.
It was hard to talk. I couldn’t remember most of the words. Reading was impossible.
My brain was fried. This was so different than before I had the stroke.
I spent 2 weeks at Yale New Haven Hospital, 3 weeks at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, and 6 weeks with nurses, occupational, and speech therapy coming to my home. I wasn’t the person who was me.
I wanted, I needed, to be able to talk.
I wanted to read The New York Times again.
And I wanted to write my blog.
It turned out I was determined to get better.
The speech therapy at Gaylord was very valuable. I met with a speech therapist twice a week for 2 years.
I also chose to work 30 hours a week for three years, using a lot of rehabilitation activities. That is why I decided to develop this website, Aphasia at Home.
With assistance, I found significant ways to:
Practice Language
Talk online to other people who also have Aphasia.
Read … sort of.
Then I found technologies that helped me read well.
I worked on relaxing my brain.
It has been a long, hard, valuable process.
If you, your caregiver, or your friend wants some ideas on how to improve your aphasia recovery, take a look at the Language, Reading, and My Brain sections on this website.
I listed everything that I did. Who knows, maybe I’ll give you some ideas for working at home on your aphasia and increase your ability to do the things that you feel are important.
Aphasia is hard. Everything was difficult. One of the hardest things I did was writing this website. Writing is exhausting.
The worst thing for the aphasia patient is to watch TV all day.
Ultimately, find your own way. I wish you well.
Love, Laura
National Aphasia Association Ambassador
