Published: December 05, 2018
Swallowing therapy was offered through NDIS plans until NDIA removed funding in late 2017
Tanisha Flemming chokes up to a dozen times in a day. She’s a quiet, wickedly funny 19-year-old, her mum says, but her stomach is constantly sore from all the coughing and gasping.
“I’ve had my son have to hit her on the back while I’m trying to dislodge whatever it is that’s stuck in her throat from the front,” her mother, Bronwyn, said. “He just knows. He sees me run in to help Tanisha and he’s right there. He’s only 10.”
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