Researchers from the Departments of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have published a study of how persons with large left-hemisphere lesions and chronic non-fluent aphasia respond – behaviorally and neuroplastically – to intensive Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). The goals of this proof-of-concept study are to characterize – following…
Aphasia researchers at Boston University have published the results of a retrospective analysis of clinical records from persons with chronic aphasia, to probe influences of selected factors on subjects’ confrontation naming performance, and on patterns of naming improvements after therapeutic intervention. Broadly, the goals of the study were to characterize relationships – firstly – of…
Canadian researchers from universities and rehabilitation institutes in Toronto and Ottawa have collaborated to study a therapeutic, internet-based application for persons with aphasia (PWA) who have naming challenges. The primary aim of the study was to assess the usability – for treating clinicians and intervention recipients both – of an application built to deliver the…
Investigators from Cal State University – Northridge, with in-state colleagues from the Veterans Administration Healthcare System, published a scoping review of articles that mention the concept of ‘motivation’ in discussions of aphasia rehabilitation research or clinical work. The authors’ purpose was to identify and characterize the range of beliefs and practices that inform such uses…
Researchers at the University of Arizona conducted a retrospective analysis of data on confrontation naming in persons with aphasia (PWA) who had participated in their institution’s various aphasia programs, and who had been administered the Boston Name Test (BNT) at least twice. Their purpose was to study the long-term patterns of BNT score improvements, specifically…
https://vimeo.com/765759673#t=0 Researchers from three disciplines at Canada’s University of Alberta – Speech-Language Pathology, Physical Therapy, and Nursing – studied the effects of participation in group therapy on the health-related quality of life in persons with aphasia. The goals were to establish, on the basis of a scoping review of published research, current evidence regarding 2…
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 ~…
Researchers from Northwestern University’s Center for Education in Health Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders studied therapeutic effects of a computer-based application for self-managed practice of verbal naming in two persons with moderate chronic aphasia. Flashcard software was used to present either a drawing or a written description of…
European health care researchers conducted a survey of speech-language pathologists in Italy to probe the views of practicing clinicians on the use of telerehabilitation (TR) technologies for the delivery of speech therapy services to clients during the COVID-19 lockdown, when meetings face-to-face for clinical sessions were discouraged The goals of the research were to document…
University of Montana graduate students – four drawn from the School of Speech, Language, Hearing & Occupational Sciences within the University’s College of Health, plus two drawn from the Department of Counselling within the College of Education – collaborated in running an interprofessional telehealth counselling and wellness group. The activities for this telehealth group were…