A Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at Sophia University, Bulgaria has published findings of an online survey of SLP clinicians regarding their experiences with teletherapy since March 13, 2020, when the European Union declared a COVID-19 emergency and mandated use of distance communication technologies by SLPs in the delivery of services wherever possible.
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) at the University of Kentucky’s Communication Sciences & Disorders Department and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences have published a systematic review of literature from 2014 to 2020 that focuses on telepractice for SLP service delivery (screening, assessment, treatment) to adults.
A team of speech-language pathologists (SLP) and a human-computer interaction design specialist from universities in the UK report on pilot research into the feasibility of improving the social participation of people with aphasia (PWA) by introducing distance communication over videolink
A collaborative project involving speech pathologists, rehabilitation specialists, and technology developers from Australia, Singapore, and Pennsylvania produced a therapeutic Word Trainer Application
Aphasia specialists at universities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska have collaborated on an article that reevaluates the role of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in aphasia rehabilitation.
This article explores the various ways in which aphasia rehabilitation might be improved through deliberate and purposeful pairing of speech-language therapy with physical therapy that targets – in particular – functional use of the hands and upper limbs.
This month we review classic applied research in medical rehabilitation that for seven years has instructed those who serve stroke survivors and their families.
Researchers from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of North Carolina have published a feasibility study reporting therapeutic effects in a person with aphasia (PWA) and accompanying apraxia of speech (AOS), who received treatment for AOS through a customized therapy app that permitted home practice of self-modeled video stimuli.
U.S. researchers at Temple University (Philadelphia) and Boston University have studied effects of group conversation treatment delivered in contrasting circumstances on outcome assessments in persons with chronic aphasia.