Stroke: 'I could sing before I could speak after my stroke'

'I could sing before I could speak after my stroke' The 45-year-old, from Coleraine in County Londonderry, can remember playing on a piano as a child before he could talk. When Stephen suffered a haemorrhagic stroke (bleed into the brain) in 2016, his family were told it was unlikely he would survive. He went on to recover but soon found he could sing easily before he was able to speak again. Research shows that some people can sing even if they cannot talk because we use different sides of our...