Parrots teach man to speak again

Brian Wilson, from Damascus, Maryland, suffered life-threatening injuries in the accident 14 years ago. He also lost his ability to speak. But he now claims that the chatter of pet parrots confounded the bleak outlook of doctors, who were convinced that he would spend the rest of his life in bed at a nursing home. "Two birds taught me to talk again," he said. "I had such a bad head injury I was never supposed to talk any more than a two-year-old." "