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Reading is a common hobby many people enjoy. However, an aphasia onset can impact a person’s reading comprehension ability and cause the reading to become a new struggle causing disappointment. Previous studies with anecdotal reports have shown people with aphasia are able to reconnect with reading for pleasure after participating with book clubs offering reading […]

This study is interested in learning more about individuals who continue to report they have language difficulties even if they are recovered from aphasia according to a formal battery. Studying these subjective communication difficulties will help clinicians better identify areas of communication requiring more attention during evaluation and treatment. Recent research shows discourse measures have […]

Bilingual aphasia therapy is important within the United States for three main reasons. First, the United States is becoming increasingly bilingual and this needs to be considered for speech therapy services. Second, individuals who are bilingual are having increased risks for a stroke that can cause aphasia. Finally, the bilingual population is currently being underserved. […]

The 2010 review provided three major groups for clinical questions that helped guide this updated review. The major groups included individuals with acute aphasia, individuals with chronic aphasia, and communication partners for people with aphasia. The review aimed to answer “what is the influence of communication partner training on measures of language impairment, communication activity/ […]

It would be more time and cost-effective if clinicians were able to better predict the prognosis for patients. However, this continues to be challenging for clinicians and the current research has not provided clear answers to help. In the research studies, the concept of recovery is not consistently defined which makes it difficult for applying […]

This study focuses on patient’s use of self- administered cues through a software program called Constant Therapy. The use of self- administered cues provides detailed information about the patient’s insight into his/her impairment and ability to independently complete a language task. There are important factors that need to be present for the successful use of […]

A “feature analysis chart” is used during SFA to identify semantic features for an item (action, use, location, properties, associations) to increase word retrieval abilities. A picture is used during this therapy to encourage the patient to answer the semantic features on a chart for the picture. The SLP provides more cues, then fades them […]

Prior research has suggested there are two neural pathways to support recovery from Broca’s aphasia. One pathway involves the recruitment of perilesional cortex in the left hemisphere and may get some input from the right hemisphere for language recovery. However only small left hemisphere lesions can have enough of the Broca’s areas remaining to support […]

All participants in the study were previously seen and diagnosed with PPA at three separate memory clinics in Toronto. All were awaiting services for PPA on a waiting list, and the first five listed and their caregivers were placed in the Treatment group, with the next five after them placed in the Control group. The […]