The Effectiveness of Adding Speech-Language Telerehabilitation to Usual Care

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…

Reviewing Changes to Approaches to Aphasia Diagnosis and Long-Term Management

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…

Detecting Evoked Potentials for Language Processing

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.

Providing Communication Practice and Promoting Wellbeing with Virtual Reality

Eleven researchers from universities in London and Essex, UK, representing the complementary fields of communication sciences and disorders, health care economics, and computer science, have published findings from a controlled, randomized study that brought persons with aphasia (PWA) into virtual reality setting for practicing topic-oriented communicative interactions.

Trends in Telepractice During Emergency Conditions

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.