Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Chris Hilliard, left, who suffers from aphasia, uses the Lingraphica, a communication device, at Sunnyview Hospital in Schenectady. Rachelle Trahan, right, a speech and language pathologist, has been helping Hilliard rehabilitate his speech for nearly a year.
