Twenty specialists in neurology and aphasiology, collaborating from leading hospitals and universities in Spain, the USA, and Chile, have published the results of a large-scale study using clinical data derived from persons with degenerative non-fluent speech-language involvement, in order to determine the degree and nature of overlap between their agrammatism – i.e., their variety of…
A team of rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, and aphasia researchers led by faculty from Johns Hopkins University have published results of a study on the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on everyday functional communication in chronic aphasia. The goals of the study were to investigate the therapeutic effects of tDCS, when administered in conjunction…
Nine researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine report results of a study into the prevalence and presentation of apraxia of speech (AoS) phenomena in the spontaneous, connected verbal productions of persons with nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (naPPA). The two goals of their investigation were: [1] to assess the types and frequencies of…
Specialists in rehabilitation and speech-communication disorders from hospitals, universities, and the National Health Service Foundation in the United Kingdom have conducted a study to identify conversation topics of greatest meaningfulness to persons with aphasia. Their key motivation was to provide a basis, empirically, for choosing vocabulary to target in therapies for word-finding in conversation, observing…
Aphasia researchers and computer scientists from universities, hospitals, and research centers in Montréal and Paris have collaborated on a scoping review of the uses of artificial intelligence in service of aphasia rehabilitation during the years 1990 to 2023. Their study objectives were – firstly – to describe how AI is being used to advance the…
Aphasia researchers in the communication disorders programs at Idaho State University and University of Montana have published a qualitative study of research gaps in the available literature investigating benefits to communicatively challenged participants in Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAP). The goals of this investigation are to characterize such gaps from the perspective of international implementers…
An interdisciplinary team of specialists from the leading hospitals and medical schools of the Boston area, with expertise in communication disorders, clinical service delivery, and telemedicine have published an article identifying and assessing opportunities and issues around incorporating emerging technologies in the clinical management of voice-, speech-, language- and communication-disorders. The goals of their publication…
Investigators from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Utah report results from single-subject experimental research into outcome improvements in three persons with aphasia (PWA) who remotely received Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment (CAAST). The goals of the research were to document outcome changes – in terms of acquisition,…
Computer scientists and artificial intelligence investigators working for Google Research collaborated with specialists in communication sciences and disorders at the University College of London and at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Professions to investigate incorporating chatbot technologies – such as OpenAI’S ChatGPT – into Speech Generating Devices for AAC technology users. They focused on…
Aphasia researchers from Chicago, Virginia, and Louisiana have collaborated on a study of the structures and strategies employed by persons with aphasia (PWA), and their neurotypical communication partners, during text messaging. The current investigators apply the investigative framework developed originally for Conversation Analysis of verbal face-to-face communications, later usefully applied to analyze also texting communications.…