In the whistle case, I was specifically being asked to name the object as part of a lexical inventory to evaluate how much of a deficit I was running; the point was to come up with the word “whistle.” In the wheelchair case, I would generally bang on the wheelchair I was in and say “this thing.” The issue wasn’t that I was unable to communicate, the issue was that I’d lost access to perfectly common words. Hope that clarifies matters.
Similarly, people understand me perfectly well when I not conjugate sentence properly, but is still frustrating when I know is wrong but cannot say right.
In the whistle case, I was specifically being asked to name the object as part of a lexical inventory to evaluate how much of a deficit I was running; the point was to come up with the word “whistle.”
In the wheelchair case, I would generally bang on the wheelchair I was in and say “this thing.” The issue wasn’t that I was unable to communicate, the issue was that I’d lost access to perfectly common words.
Hope that clarifies matters.
Similarly, people understand me perfectly well when I not conjugate sentence properly, but is still frustrating when I know is wrong but cannot say right.