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…
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…
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.
Aphasia investigators from Australia have published a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles since 2012 that report on randomized controlled trials (RCT) investigating aphasia therapy efficacy.
Lingraphica co-founder and Chief Scientist, Dr. Richard Steele, summarizes the recent findings from a collaborative study conducted by Hallmark Rehabilitation Services and Lingraphica on the benefits of online language therapy in long-term care facilities. Read on for the details.