Reported By Allison Walker 

Central Florida stroke survivors are finding a new way to communicate.

But they don't need to say a word.

A photograph can have so much meaning behind it, it can almost speak.

That's the point of a brand new program giving stroke survivors a new way to tell their story.

"The beautiful thing is that we've been able to see how they used photography to get back to the thing that brought meaning in their lives," said Micki Meyer of Rollins College

Art and psychology students from Rollins College and UCF's communicative disorder students are working together in a workshop called The Photograph as Language.   They're showing stroke victims - who now have problems with writing and talking - how to remember specific events through photography.

Rollins says the program is getting more funding next year to bring in more staff, and to beef up the course.

"The class gives the stroke survivors an opportunity to go back to the voyage that got them to their particular profession. This person shot this right here, and described it at "it's lonely, and you think it's deserted."

"They took pictures of that voyage and who they were before the stroke," Meyer said.

They had accomplished pasts, too.

"Lawyers, business people, world travelers," Meyer said.  

Today, their new accomplishment -- grasp of a new language through photography -- is displayed for younger students who are now teaching them.

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