Dr. Suma Devanga (Speech Language Pathologist-Clinical Fellow) has secured WMU's 2018 Support for Faculty Scholars award to conduct research on aphasia treatment. The focus of this research is to ...

“Aphasia therapy aims to improve a person’s ability to communicate by helping him or her to use remaining language abilities, restore language abilities as much as possible, and learn other ways of ...

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder most often caused by stroke (as well as traumatic brain injury, dementia, and more). Aphasia results in impairments in the production and comprehension of ...

Expand Although there may not be direct benefits to participants, taking part in our research assists clinicians and researchers in better understanding communication difficulties in individuals with ...

The researchers – who publish their findings in the journal Brain today – hope that the treatment will eventually improve the ability of stroke patients with aphasia across the NHS to access intensive ...

Include computer-assisted treatment and assessment in aphasia, reading comprehension, and bilingualism. Dan is currently investigating the effects of text-picture integration on reading comprehension ...

Jiyeon Lee is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the director of the Aphasia Research Lab at Purdue University. She received her PhD in Communication Sciences and ...

"The Center invites people living with Aphasia to join our support group ... may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to ...

The study demonstrated that the drug, when used alongside speech therapy, led to greater improvements in stroke-related aphasia than speech therapy alone. “If confirmed in larger studies ...