Aphasia-friendly medication instructions: effects on comprehension in persons with and without aphasia

Aphasia Study, Brain, Research

https://vimeo.com/756945861 Researchers from three disciplines at Duquesne University – Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, and Nursing – studied the effects of simplifying written instructions for medications in contrasting groups of persons with aphasia (PWA) and persons without aphasia (PWoA). The goal was to answer three questions. 1. What are the group comprehension differences between PWA ~…

Neurologically Based Communication Problems and Language and Speech Therapy in Old Age

Brain, Dementia, Research, Speech and Language

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…