Speech Therapy Exercises for Stroke Patients
This article explores how speech therapy exercises for stroke patients can be utilized, offering a comprehensive approach to recovery....
30 September 2024
How to Love Someone with Aphasia
When faced with challenges like aphasia, love can become even more profound....
29 May 2024
How Does a Brain Injury Impact Language Skills?
Explore how brain injury can affect language skills, and how rehabilitation and support may help rebuild these skills....
24 April 2024
Can AI Provide Communication Assistance to People with Aphasia?
In this blog post, we explore how emerging AI technology could make an impact on the lives of individuals with aphasia....
16 August 2023
How to Support a Loved One in Cognitive Therapy
Going through cognitive therapy can be difficult and frustrating for patients, but it can be incredibly rewarding. Supporting a loved one in cognitive therapy can be very helpful in their recovery....
21 June 2023
The Benefits of Music in Speech Therapy
Music can be a great tool for speech-language pathologists to use with clients....
5 May 2023
What is childhood aphasia?
In this article, we’ll focus on why childhood aphasia occurs, the different types, and how it may be treated through cognitive therapy....
12 April 2023
What are the different types of aphasia?
Aphasia is a language impairment typically caused by a stroke or other brain injury. It can affect both the understanding and production of speech and language....
5 April 2023
Activities to help with stroke recovery
In addition to a healthy diet and exercise, there are many activities that can help someone with stroke recovery. Physical therapy may be necessary for physical recovery, and equally important is exercising the brain. Here are some of the best ways to help the brain along when trying to overcome som...
23 January 2023
What is Neuroplasticity, and why is it important?
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to modify connections and change its activity in response to stimuli, basically “re-wiring” itself. So, what does this mean?...
9 January 2023
Areas Of Cognition to Work On in the New Year
New Year’s resolutions are a great way to enter into a new mindset and achieve goals that improve your life. Why not help your clients set goals to improve their cognition this year? Setting goals together at the beginning of the year could help clients stay motivated and better understand their p...
30 December 2022
Setting Cognitive Goals for the New Year
Clinicians may want to work with clients on setting cognitive goals - these could be anything from feeling happier, to improving their attention or memory....
28 December 2022
3 HappyNeuron Pro Exercises For Aphasia
Are you working with people that have aphasia? Here are three HappyNeuron Pro exercises for aphasia that you can use with your clients today!...
21 December 2022
What 3 Cognitive Components Should You Work On For Aphasia?
Aphasia is a condition that reflects the loss of language. Depending on the nature of aphasia, a person may have trouble producing and/or understanding language. Some people with aphasia may not understand spoken language but are able to understand written language and vice versa. Everyone’s exper...
30 November 2022
Working with Aphasia? How Bird Songs Can Help!
Aphasia is a common disorder resulting from a stroke that impairs a person’s ability to produce and understand language. Speech therapists often work with a person on verbal fluency and verbal memory skills. These elements are critical cognitive functions required for language. However, many overl...
6 July 2022
What is Broca’s Aphasia?
When someone has a stroke on the left side of their brain, they may have difficulty producing speech. This condition is known as Broca's aphasia. Many people encounter those with Broca's aphasia but do not understand what it is. In this blog post, we answer the question of “what is Broca's aphasia...
4 July 2022
The Striking Benefits of Training Speed and Accuracy of Word Retrieval in Post-Stroke Aphasia
Adults are able to utter about 120 words per minute and may make a speech error once out of every thousand words. If an adult experiences a stroke, they may develop a condition known as aphasia, which greatly reduces their ability to produce and understand language. Sometimes, people with aphasia ma...
11 August 2021
Can Intensive Speech & Language Therapy Improve Language in Aphasia Patients Post-Stroke?
Aphasia commonly occurs after someone experiences a stroke. When a closed head injury occurs in the left hemisphere, a person may lose the ability to produce and understand language. Commonly, people think of aphasia as Broca’s aphasia, where a person may have difficulty producing language. Howeve...
9 August 2021
The Cognitive Connection Between Executive Functions and Language Skills
Language is one of the ways we communicate. It is one that when it is lost it is greatly missed. Kyra's background and work with executive function skills with the smart but struggling learner, has led her to a better understanding of the connection between the two. Language is complex and understan...
30 October 2020
Are You Using Telepractice to Treat Aphasia?
If you answered no, then you may want to consider doing so to help you and your patient with aphasia get the most out of therapy. Why? It has been scientifically proven that treatment intensity and duration are the key ingredients to improving cognitive function, especially language for people ...
7 August 2020
[Video] TEDTalk – How Aphasia Affects the Brain
Aphasia is a loss of language, not a loss of intellect. Over 2 million Americans are living with aphasia as a result of a stroke, brain injury, or neurodegenerative disease. In this video, you can learn about the different kinds of aphasia and how they impact language. You can also show this vide...
3 June 2020
What is Aphasia
Experiencing a stroke can result in many different kinds of cognitive conditions. The most well-known condition resulting from a stroke is called aphasia. Aphasia is the loss of language. Aphasia is a condition that can cause someone to not be able to communicate or comprehend language. In this blo...
1 June 2020
How SLPs Help Stroke Patients with Aphasia
Speech-language pathologists (SLP’s) play a huge role in stroke rehabilitation. Strokes often cause aphasia. Aphasia can present as a loss of language or as having difficulty comprehending speech. SLP’s may help patients with stroke not only speak but understand language again. Here are 3 ways S...
25 May 2020
How and Why You Need to Start an Aphasia Support Group
Aphasia is a devastating result of a stroke that can impair a person’s ability to produce and understand language. Aphasia is life-changing, and routine tasks become challenging. Communication is a socially dependent skill and relies heavily on the language section of the brain. Because of this, m...
13 May 2020
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24 April, 2024How Does Language Develop in Early Childhood?
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26 January, 2024The Impact of School-Based Cognitive Therapy
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06 December, 2023How to Enhance Pediatric Care with Digital Cognitive Exercises for Kids
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30 October, 2023Why Clinicians Should Offer Telehealth in Winter
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27 October, 2023How Climate Change Affects Cognitive Function
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04 August, 2023The Cognitive Science Behind Brain Fog
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28 July, 2023Tips for Conducting Group Cognitive Therapy
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30 June, 2023Tips For Involving Families in Cognitive Rehabilitation
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12 April, 2023How learning a new language changes the brain
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When someone has a stroke on the left side of their brain, they may have difficulty producing speech. This condition is known as Broca's aphasia. Many
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Mary Ann has a voluminous amount of information to share for SLPs who work with TBI patients. In this mini segment, she discusses how and why she uses
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Adults are able to utter about 120 words per minute and may make a speech error once out of every thousand words. If an adult experiences a stroke, th
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Aphasia commonly occurs after someone experiences a stroke. When a closed head injury occurs in the left hemisphere, a person may lose the ability to
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16 November, 2020Why Word Retrieval Therapy Helps Dementia
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06 November, 2020The Cognitive Connection Between Executive Functions and Language Skills
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30 October, 2020Are You Using Telepractice to Treat Aphasia?
If you answered no, then you may want to consider doing so to help you and your patient with aphasia get the most out of therapy. Why? It has bee
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08 June, 2020[Video] TEDTalk – How Aphasia Affects the Brain
Aphasia is a loss of language, not a loss of intellect. Over 2 million Americans are living with aphasia as a result of a stroke, brain injury, or neu
03 June, 2020What is Aphasia
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01 June, 20203 Kinds of Therapists Who Work With Language
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28 May, 2020How SLPs Help Stroke Patients with Aphasia
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22 May, 2020How and Why You Need to Start an Aphasia Support Group
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13 May, 2020Does it Work? – Telepractice for Adult Speech Therapy
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