Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment

  • Aphasia Center

    The Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment was created to respond to the challenge of “living with aphasia.”
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    Aphasia Programs

    Learn about our research opportunities, Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program and community groups.
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    How Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Aphasia Program Helps Participants

    See how the Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia program helps people with aphasia
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    View our Aphasia Awareness Playlist

    View and subscribe to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's Aphasia Awareness YouTube Playlist.
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    Our Projects

    Take a look at a few of the projects we work on everyday.

    Defining Trajectories of Outcomes in Aphasia
    PROJECT TYPE: Stroke

    Research Project

    Aphasia Community Programs
    PROJECT TYPE: Activity & Participation, Aphasia

    Research Project

    Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program

    Research Project

    Aphasia Research Studies
    PROJECT TYPE: Aphasia, Brain

    Research Project

    Aphasia Treatment Software
    PROJECT TYPE: Aphasia

    Research Project

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    Clinical Trials

    Join our research in progress by volunteering to be a participant.

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    Timing of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with speech and language therapy (SLT): An Intervention Development study for Aphasia

    This study will determine if it is better to receive tDCS before, during, or after the speech and language therapy session.

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    Modulating stimuli intensity to improve clinical outcomes in aphasia treatment

    We are conducting a research study that will help us understand how to better schedule speech and language therapy. The therapy can be done from home on either your personal computer or laptop that we will lend to you.

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    Trajectory of Recovery in Aphasia

    To describe trajectories of change in persons with aphasia during inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation to 18 months following stroke.

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    Selected Publications

    Who Benefits From an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program?

    This article summarizes current outcomes from intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) and examines data from one ICAP to identify those who respond and do not respond to treatment.

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    Attention Process Training-3 to improve reading comprehension in mild aphasia: A single-case experimental design study.

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    Script Templates: A Practical Approach to Script Training in Aphasia.

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