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New Mom Recovers from Stroke After Birth of First Baby
Heather experience every now mother's nightmare: a sudden stroke after the birth of her new child. However, with the AbilityLab's help and support of her family, she can now keep up with her son.
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Leora Cherney, PhD, Named Research Chair for Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Dr. Cherney to serve as chair of Think + Speak Lab within RIC’s new research hospital.
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New Training has Loved Ones Helping Those Suffering from Aphasia
Just one month after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl, Ashley had two strokes. After being diagnosed with aphasia, she tries to find the right words. At times her husband Matt helps prompt her responses.
Patient Story
Urmi’s Story: A Young Scientist’s Journey
A neurophysiologist's journey to recovery after a rare type of stroke.
Patient Story
After a Stroke, an Artist Finds Help from Man's Best Friend
After having a stroke while running on the treadmill, Emily Rutledge found help from an unlikely source: Georgia, the AbilityLab's therapy dog. Sometimes the best technology is man's best friend.
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For Patients and Healthy Volunteers Participating as Research Subjects, and for Researchers
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Brain Injury
We have 60 years’ experience studying the brain’s complexities and healing capacity.
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Aphasia
At the AbilityLab, our aphasia experts are investigating novel ways to treat aphasia through technological innovation, clinical research studies, and unique therapeutic treatments.
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Engineering a Successful Stroke Recovery
When Igal survived a stroke he was told he would never walk or speak again, But this professor of biomedical engineering work hard through all levels of our unique - punctuated by our Intensive Aphasia Program - to regain his abilities.
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AphasiaScripts™
AphasiaScripts™ is a software program designed for script practice. It uses a Personal Animated Therapist (PAT).
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New Therapies to Help Stroke Survivors Recover Language Years After Injury
Encouraging new evidence is emerging to suggest the brain's plasticity, or its ability to change and heal, may last many years after injury—far longer than the commonly assumed plateau for speech recovery of about six months to a year.
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