Investigators at collaborating academic and medical institutions in Washington, DC, researched the use of distance communication technologies to deliver anomia therapy to persons with primary progressive aphasia.
For many years it was widely believed post-stroke survivors with aphasia would essentially plateau six months into their recovery. In an effort to test this assumption and support the community of adults with chronic aphasia, we studied the effectiveness of our speech-generating devices in the recovery and improvement of speech for adults with aphasia long after onset.