A UCL-developed app that provides speech therapy for people with the language disorder aphasia has been found to significantly improve their ability to talk. iTalkBetter, developed by the ...
Lucy Mulloor woke up one morning and realized something was terribly wrong. The 45-year-old single-mom could hear her two daughters in the kitchen but couldn't call out to them. She'd lost the ability ...
Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...
For individuals recovering from neurological conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, vestibular dysfunction or concussion, outpatient ...
HOUSTON — Jeremy Elbert suffered a stroke the first week of August. After he collapsed at a martial arts class with friends, he was rushed to the hospital where he received treatment within an hour.
As Stroke Awareness Month continues, a Tulsa speech therapist is shedding light on the recovery process and the critical role speech-language pathologists play in post-stroke care. Speech-language ...
"It also has a therapeutic effect on me to understand how far I've come over the years," says stroke survivor Garrett Mendez.
Ray Hart’s vocabulary consisted of just one word after his August 2022 stroke. “Yep” was all he could say, said Pamela Jenkins, his caregiver and partner of 24 years. Like many survivors, Hart, 62, ...
Ray Hart, a 62-year-old stroke survivor, works on singing songs to help recall words and language during a music therapy session at Sentara Fort Norfolk Plaza in Norfolk on May 16, 2024. Kendall ...