Did you know that there’s more to speech therapy for Parkinson’s disease than boosting volume? More than helping our patients identify real-world situations where they should try their improved voice?…
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Are you on the lookout for a new aphasia therapy approach? AbSANT, or Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training, is a promising technique devised by Dr. Chaleece W. Sandberg and colleagues.…
Here are five things you may not think of before neck surgery, from the perspective of a speech-language pathologist who is undergoing neck surgery. Free DIRECT download: Resources for neck surgery…
To be clear, we can’t actually experience aphasia unless we have it. BUT we can try some interactive activities or watch some videos to gain a sense of what it…
Bell’s palsy is a fairly common disorder that is known for causing weakness on one side of the face. Speech-language pathologists are often asked to assess patients with Bell’s palsy,…
I clearly remember how excited Steve was when he told me that he could use the bank’s automated phone system for the first time in years. He was one of…
Video can be a great supplement to aphasia therapy. I’m sharing five ESL (English as a Second Language) videos that we can use to teach verbs in aphasia therapy. These…
Learn to communicate better in dementia with the MESSAGE strategy from the University of Queensland. Each letter stands for a set of tips, which you can see demonstrated via YouTube…
As a speech-language pathologist, linguist, and fiction writer, I often notice how people communicate. And I often see people getting irritated when they can’t communicate easily. You may think that’s…
I recently worked with a patient who could count to ten fairly well, but could only say a few other words. For each number, I chose up to ten similar…