Speech-language pathologists in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Connecticut report results of a pilot study using the Language Environment Analysis technology (LENA) to capture and analyze real-world samples of language use from a person with aphasia (PWA) before and after intensive language therapy. The authors goals were: [1]…
Two prominent aphasiologists – Julius Fridriksson from University of South Carolina and Argye Elizabeth Hillis from Johns Hopkins University – have published an evaluative review of rehabilitation advances over the last five years for persons with aphasia (PWA). The authors first discuss research focused on traditional behavioral speech-language therapies and studied in large-group, randomized, scientifically…
Faculty in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Departments at the University of Montana (UMT) and Utah State University have published a study of cognitive and linguistic outcomes of intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) for people with aphasia (PWA) in the chronic stage, implemented by graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP). Using graduate students lowers ICAP…
A Research Scientist in Biomedical Engineering in Azerbaijan has published a review of communication issues in old age, including discussions of speech-language interventions for their management. The purpose of the paper is to give a sense of the nature and scope of the various communication problems whose incidence increases with aging processes, and to discuss…
A doctoral student and her professors in electronics and electrical engineering at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom have published an article on Alternative and Augmentative Communication [AAC] approaches incorporating advanced technologies
Rehabilitation specialists from Norway and Scotland present results from a single-blinded randomized controlled pilot study that compares the effectiveness – for persons with aphasia (PWA) – of speech-language telerehabilitation additive to usual care for following stroke, vs. usual care alone. It reports subject recruitment and drop-out numbers, plus improvements in impairment assessment scores and functional…
An aphasia researcher from Chapman University’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, together with a colleague from Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, have published an article that reviews changes in approaches to diagnosing aphasia over the past several decades, as well as the evolution which has taken place during that time…
Faculty from the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department, East Carolina University, have published a review of selected peer-reviewed materials since 1980 to update understandings of patterns and circumstances of long-term recovery from aphasia pursuant to stroke.
In January 2021, Prof. Stephen M. Wilson – a neuroscientist in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences – launched The Language Neuroscience Podcast series, devoting individual episodes to probing, informative one-hour interviews with leading investigators across the globe about their research into the neuroanatomy and the neurophysiology of human language.
Andrew Kertesz MD & Professor Emeritus, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Western Ontario (Canada), and creator of the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), has published an article reviewing the applications of this standardized, impairment-level aphasia assessment instrument.