… Expertise Aphasia Brain Injury/Stroke Stroke survivor Steve Parnell takes positive approach to recovery, student learning at IMPACT Practice Center and Tedy’s Team … Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He couldn’t swallow water, or anything that hadn’t been thickened with a specialty powder, for 86 days, and was unable to talk for 43 … even decades, after acquiring aphasia.” To help unlock those words, Parnell has been working with MGH Institute speech pathology graduate students since 2021. In …