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In more recent years she has suffered health setbacks including a stroke that left her aphasic, and has performed only rarely.

My familiarity with Chaikin comes mainly from his productions of Samuel Beckett and Shepard that he directed late in his career, after a stroke had left him aphasic.

He’s great at picking up insider images, too, as when Bannon describes Giuliani, in his aphasic periods, as in the “mumble tank.”

So the hospital hired a speech pathologist who used a controversial technique called facilitated communication, which is where the speech therapist holds the hand of the aphasic patient.

Paige’s preoccupations run to humiliating Arnold, once a wife beater and now an aphasic stroke victim, by dressing him in clown makeup and ladies’ nighties.