I have a very close friend who has primary progressive aphasia. She does a lot of communication by mime and snippets of sentences. She was a writer / editor but cannot write at all anymore. But can still read. What was suggested was to watch TV that is close captioned. It’s interesting to watch as you can see her reading and connecting with the scene and sometimes she will say out loud the close captions. Especially if the characters tend to have same script each episode (dIY home improvement shows, Frazier, Wings) or it’s a series we’ve seen dozens of times (Mad Men, the Wire, ) so know the storyline. Perhaps see if doing this seems to spark for your hubs.
Aphasia is quite maddening. We would, pre Covid, go out for a meal or to have coffee or shop and invariably run into someone she knew. She still looked quite fabulous but really can’t communicate. It was amazing to watch over & over, someone would start talking with her and she could just do head movements, or look at them while they talked on & on & on and all she had to do was the occasional “Really, amazing, so great, No, miss you, be good”, etc. and they would just talk up a storm on their life and events. Not ever realizing she really could not actually truly speak.
I hope your husband is working with a speech therapist, too.
Aphasia is quite maddening. We would, pre Covid, go out for a meal or to have coffee or shop and invariably run into someone she knew. She still looked quite fabulous but really can’t communicate. It was amazing to watch over & over, someone would start talking with her and she could just do head movements, or look at them while they talked on & on & on and all she had to do was the occasional “Really, amazing, so great, No, miss you, be good”, etc. and they would just talk up a storm on their life and events. Not ever realizing she really could not actually truly speak.