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Designing Occupational Therapy Home Programs for People with Aphasia: Aphasia-Friendly Modifications (2020)

January 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
The SLP’s expertise can help implement aphasia-friendly communication strategies and environmental adaptations to facilitate increased participation in therapy, outcomes, and home programs. Some aphasia-friendly written material modifications could include abundant white space, photographs, simplified vocabulary, simplified syntax, and larger font size. People with aphasia often prefer these adjustments to increase their reading comprehension. Having personalized […]
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Reading a Nutritional Label

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This therapy material works on cognition and mathematical skills, as well as health management via reading a nutritional label.
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What is Wernicke’s Aphasia?

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Wernicke’s aphasia is when a person has difficulty comprehending what others say. This material provides helpful communication tips to support comprehension.
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Stealing Cookies in the Twenty-First Century: Measures of Spoken Narrative in Healthy Versus Speakers With Aphasia (2019)

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
The “Cookie Theft” picture from the BDAE has been widely used for a picture description task to analyze cognitive-linguistic factors of spoken language. These picture descriptions provide opportunities to capture deficits in language, social communication, spatial attention, and prosody. The BDAE has provided guidelines for identifying cognitive-linguistic deficits for individuals with Williams syndrome, primary progressive […]
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What is Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia?

October 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is the rarest form of aphasia and is a neurodegenerative disease. There are three variants of PPA. This handout specifically focuses on the nonfluent/agrammatic variant of PPA and provides examples of how it may manifest in speech and language tasks.
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Person-Centered Care in Speech-Language Therapy Research and Practice for Adults: A Scoping Review (2022)

October 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
PCC is encouraged internationally and has been documented to shorten hospital stays, improve self-efficacy, and improve the overall quality of life. The idea of PCC is to re-humanize healthcare and honor how each patient provides important knowledge to guide treatment of care based on what’s meaningful to the person. The idea of patient-centered care and […]
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