Asha’s Recovery After leaving the hospital, Asha began retraining her brain with speech therapy. Day after day, Asha repeatedly paired words with objects or identified numbers, weekdays, or months. As Asha gradually made progress, her mother began taking her to stores. “She’d tell the clerk I was from India and that my English wasn’t very good and ask them to please be patient with me. She basically forced me to talk to the sales clerks.” Today, more than five years after the stroke, Asha has completely recovered and resumed teaching.

Courtesy Asha Hegde Niezgoda