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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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