hope. friends, family, a home. camaraderie? yes! yes! reporter: she uses singing, too, praises with rhythm and melody are often affected even when spoken language is not. as for her continued recovery i m optimistic. it will be a long, hard haul, but i m optimistic. reporter: is your recovery a process of discovering a new gabby giffords or a fight to reclaim the old gabby giffords? the new one. better, stronger, tougher. reporter: dr. tara narula, cnn, tucson, arizona. be sure to tune in, the all-new cnn film gabby giffords won t back down premieres tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. only here
coming to aphasia groups. hope. friends. family. a home. camaraderie. yes! almost heaven, west virginia reporter: she uses singing, too. phrases with rhythm and melody are often retained when somebody has aphasia, even when spoken language is not. blowing like a breeze country road as for her continued recovery i m optimistic. it will be a long, hard haul, but i m optimistic. reporter: is your recovery a process of discovering a new gabby giffordss or a fight to reclaim the old gabby giffords. the new one. better, stronger, tougher. reporter: cnn, tucson, arizona. electric. wow, be sure to tune in to the all-new cnn film gabby
hope. friends, family. a home. comradery? yes! she uses singing too, phrases with rhythm and melody are often retained when somebody has aphasia, even when spoken language is not. blowing like a breeze as for her continued recovery i m optimistic. it will be a long, hard haul, but i m optimistic. is your recovery a process of discovering a new gabby giffords or a fight to reclaim the old gabby giffords? the new one. better, stronger, tougher. remarkable conversation. i want to bring in dr. tara narula. who spoke with gabby giffords. remarkable what she has been through. that day stood out to so many and now to see where she is today. it is. and she s just resilience
be very much the central voice of this documentary, and it is. and our question was, like, how are we going to make a film centered on someone for whom language is such an ongoing struggle and challenge? and what we learned spending time with gabby is that it s actually so fascinating to see what she goes through every day. so, we kind of made that part of the process of our film. you know, obviously we have seen so many horrific shootings this year. uvalde, highland park, the list is long. there s also been legislation that has been bipartisan legislation finally that s been passed. are you optimistic right now about the potential for more change? i m optimistic. it will be a long, hard haul, but i m optimistic. one of the things i was reading up about aphasia is
this year. uvalde, highland park, the list is long. there s also been legislation that has been bipartisan legislation finally that s been passed. are you optimistic right now about the potential for more change? i m optimistic. it will be a long, hard haul, but i m optimistic. one of the things i was reading up about aphasia is that and you see this in the documentary is singing is something that you do at times and that i guess it s a different part of the brain. yeah. i mean, this is what we learned in the course of making this film. it s pretty extraordinary. gabby was shot in the language center, which is why she has difficulty, why she has aphasia. but it turns out that music is located not just here in the language center, but all over the brain. so, that s one of the ways in which the speech pathologists