Purpose: Text messaging is a widely used mode of communication. Like people without aphasia, people with aphasia use texting to communicate with ...

This is the first study to describe how speech and language therapists (SLTs) support people with aphasia during decision-making conversations and mental capacity assessments across countries.Conve...

Purpose: Resilience is an underdefined, understudied, yet potentially critical contributor to poststroke aphasia rehabilitation. Resilience measu...

Background: Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) in the presence of co-occurring aphasia and/or dysarthria are...

Purpose: This single-subject design study examined whether self-reported inner speech (IS)—the subjective experience of retrieving a word interna...

Purpose: People with aphasia have a comprehensive range of needs due to their language impairment and its resulting impact on everyday life. Apha...

The mechanisms of aphasia recovery following left-hemisphere stroke remain debated. Two broad hypotheses have been proposed for how recovery occurs when specialized systems, such as the language syste...

Purpose: Stroke survivors often face problems in language, motor, and cognitive skills because the neural networks for these functions overlap. C...

Purpose: Although sentence production deficits are common in persons with aphasia (PWA), available treatments are limited. Implicit structural pr...

Purpose: Left-hemisphere stroke survivors who score above the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised (WAB-R) cutoff, but have self-reported aphasia, hav...

More than 2 million Americans have aphasia, and that number is growing annually. Every year, clinicians and researchers gather to present new findings in aphasia and other neurologic language disorder...

Purpose: Multimodal Communication Treatment with discourse via telepractice (teleMCT+D) is a modified version of Multimodal Communication Treatme...

Stroke survivors with aphasia experience a range of challenges during hospital-based stroke rehabilitation. These include limited rehabilitative activities and difficulties interacting with healthc...

Purpose: Although optional elements of speech, speakers frequently use adjunct phrases (e.g., on the rug, by the weekend) to enrich message conte...

Purpose: Intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) are a novel service delivery model incorporating best practice principles in aphasia re...

Purpose: The purpose of this preliminary research study was to evaluate the feasibility of directly rating four dimensions of connected speech in...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

Purpose: Research has shown that individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after their stroke. While individuals living with aphasia want...

Purpose: Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia (PWA). Given the chronicity of aphasia and the ...

Purpose: Sentence production is impaired in many persons with aphasia (PWA). However, few effective treatments for sentence production exist. Rec...

Objective To propose three areas of cognitive expertise as the foundation of rehabilitation, uniting the many varieties of rehabilitation. Five issues The foll...

Purpose: Measures of coping that are accessible to persons with aphasia in both clinical and research environments are lacking. The current artic...

Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...

Have you missed any of our seminars this year? Our YouTube chanel has recordings of our seminars available for you to watch anytime. Seminar 57 - How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting? Presentation by: Samantha Siyambalapitiya. This presentation will discuss findings from a qualitative case study conducted at a Queensland hospital exploring the current practice of speech pathologists working with bi/multilingual adults with aphasia.

Recovery from aphasia after stroke is thought to depend on functional reorganization of language processing in surviving brain regions. Many studies have investigated this process, but progress has be...

Purpose: Most individuals with aphasia want to improve their reading and writing, yet these language skills are not typically prioritized in apha...

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the incidence of aphasia, high-level language impairment, and swallowing impairment in patients post-stroke...

Intra-individual variability in language performance has been proposed as a factor associated with treatment outcomes in chronic aphasia. However, the…

Languages vary in their syntactic (e.g. word order in sentences), lexical (e.g. presence of specific word classes), and morphological (e.g. inflectional or derivational forms of words) properties. ...

Stroke affects one in four adults in the UK, with over a third relying on informal carers. The burden of care can have detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of carers, which may imp...

Presented by Jude Berraondo SLT. Workshop including key principles of treatment, practical therapy strategies and real-life case examples.

Purpose: Intensive speech-language therapy (SLT) delivered as telerehabilitation in combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDC...