Sentences with phrase «with aphasia»

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 treatment, and improve their symptoms and speech recovery after stroke.

«When we are looking at ways to help people with aphasia recover their language function, we really need to look at the whole brain system and think about aspects of cognition such as attention and memory and how they may be affecting recovery of language function.»

«Individuals with aphasia often have significant problems with reading,» said Dr. Boukrina.

Sandberg's study of adults with aphasia compared to same - age healthy adults indicates that issues may extend beyond language portions of the brain and therefore require additional intervention programs to ensure patients» full recovery.

Sitting next to me in the ubiquitous chairs of tent revivals and corporate meetings, right in the front row by the ring, Mayweather leans in close with the deliberate affectation of someone who might struggle with aphasia.

Patients diagnosed with aphasia can have difficulty speaking and understanding spoken words as well as difficulty reading and writing.

This result is consistent with other observations, for example the fact that some children or adults, with a very poor numerical vocabulary, are able to perform advanced arithmetic, or that even some patients with aphasia [1] can still do calculation and algebra.

«To identify people early on, we are looking at areas of brain damage that are associated with aphasia and type of reading difficulties,» noted Dr. Boukrina.

I had a stroke nine years ago that left me partially paralyzed with aphasia and PBA so I'm at home more these days.

However, in brains at rest in people with aphasia, networks involved in hearing, motor processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the same networks in the control group.

and Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.

Bilingual adults with aphasia (BAA) who have semantic deficits secondary to stroke can experience impairments that leave them unable to communicate in either language.

The findings may lead to better understanding of how brain processes are disrupted in stroke patients with aphasia and also address theories about the overall operation of the brain.

«The findings are significant because they can influence how patients with aphasia are treated to ensure a more complete recovery,» said Chaleece Sandberg, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State and principal investigator of the study.

Going back 40 years, I was very struck by the therapeutic power of music with many of the patients I saw: Parkinson's patients, patients with aphasia, patients with dementia.

You've also found that people with aphasia — the inability to speak because of neurological damage — can sometimes sing.

[1] A patient with aphasia is someone who has lost the ability to control language.

The goal of this study was to determine the extent to which regional left hemisphere (LH) and right hemisphere (RH) integrity predicts naming therapy gains in persons with aphasia (PWA).

Some dogs are trained to understand a range of commands which lets them help those with aphasia (a language disorder common in older adults, particularly those who've had a stroke) feel good when they see the dog understands them.

Thiel L, Sage K, Conroy P. Promoting linguistic complexity, greater message length and ease of engagement in email writing in people with aphasia: initial evidence from a study utilizing assistive writing software.

The Evidence of Interdisciplinary Teamwork in the Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Aphasia