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ai m stouffville springs ash ions stouffville s graylane boutique hosted a fashion show sunday afternoon of some of the latest fs e f mod incud catn kloepfer upper right rebecca kubica third photo from teft and store ownermanager irene kubica holding belt other models at the show were sam sbk stouffville volunteer bonnie morrison right and others like her are the keys to the success of the speech and stroke centre yorkdurham branch the centre helps stroke victims with photobwcestaplty asphasia claremonts wyn chamberlain seat ed is one of the many to be aided by the cen tre she works on her writing skills while hus band allan looks on photos by annette buchkowski volunteers key for stroke support centre bruce stapley correspondent the good news just keeps getting better at the speech and stroke centre york- durham branch it was in may of 1989 that the seed was planted for the stouffville based support pro gram for adult stroke survivors with asphasia a condition involving difficulties in speak ing understanding reading and writing now almost two years later the centre is flour ishing thanks to the work of 30 volunteers who back up the full time efforts of a trio of speech therapists the centre initially set up operations at parkview village with 18 months of start up funding from the new horizons project money- for seniors and additional financial assistance from the ministry of health community and health programs it was final ly recognized as a corporation last august and held its first annual general meeting this past november now 28 clients along with supportive family members attend the centres twice weekly speech therapy sessions with two volunteers heading up tables of four or so i each the common to f e day such as the changing seasons newspapers feet etc the table works through a number of discussion points relating to the topic with everyone encouraged to join in ofsm is m he fm year a centre volunteer feels ps one invotved s 3 8 placc il a gr0wth cxpice for everyone jsjm i l volunteer work having served the canadian cancer soci- s8w markhamstouffville hospice in the past a career nurse she said her work ihsssssss a tota face f he w of work she was used to 5g htto hsl ast ml 1 m n0t p 0f acute sta of an illness here were iu 20ys t aurse my year herc l lemv cliev m he void left p care once centre s 2 scnarged from traditional rehabilitation programs the volunteers stsifiel tsft s f client he c improve ineir sen esteem through the learning of effective communication