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What can co-speech gestures in aphasia tell us about the relationship between language and gesture?: A single case study of a participant with Conduction Aphasia [PDF]

, 2011
Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that language typology influences how people gesture when using ‘manner-of-motion’ verbs (Kita 2000; Kita & Özyürek 2003) and that this is due to ‘online’ lexical and syntactic choices made at the time of speaking (Kita,
Cocks, N., Dipper, L., Morgan, G., Rowe, M.   +3 more
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Reconstructing impaired language using generative AI for people with aphasia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
In an era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), it may be possible to capitalise on AI’s generative capabilities to assist people in compensating for their impaired language.
Achini Adikari, Damminda Alahakoon, Nuwan Pallewela, John E. Pierce, Nelson J. Hernandez, Miranda L. Rose   +5 more
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Predictors of Therapy Response in Chronic Aphasia: Building a Foundation for Personalized Aphasia Therapy [PDF]

Journal of Stroke, 2022
Chronic aphasia, a devastating impairment of language, affects up to a third of stroke survivors. Speech and language therapy has consistently been shown to improve language function in prior clinical trials, but few clinicially applicable predictors of ...
Sigfus Kristinsson, Dirk B. den Ouden, Chris Rorden, Roger Newman-Norlund, Jean Neils-Strunjas, Julius Fridriksson   +5 more
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Effects of CPAP on Language Recovery in Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Review of Recent Literature

Brain Sciences, 2022
Obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent in the post-stroke population, and has been shown to affect cognitive, neurological, and functional status.
Eve Mercer, Eleanor Sherfey, Candice Ogbu, Ellyn A. Riley   +3 more
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Timing of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with speech and language therapy (SLT) for aphasia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2022
Background Studies suggest that language recovery in aphasia may be improved by pairing speech-language therapy with transcranial direct current stimulation.
Sameer A. Ashaie, Samantha Engel, Leora R. Cherney   +2 more
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Telerehabilitation for Word Retrieval Deficits in Bilinguals With Aphasia: Effectiveness and Reliability as Compared to In-person Language Therapy

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Background: Bilinguals with post-stroke aphasia (BWA) require treatment options that are sensitive to their particular bilingual background and deficits across languages.
Claudia Peñaloza, Michael Scimeca, Angelica Gaona, Erin Carpenter, Nishaat Mukadam, Teresa Gray, Shilpa Shamapant, Swathi Kiran   +7 more
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CreaTable Content and Tangible Interaction in Aphasia [PDF]

, 2020
Multimedia digital content (combining pictures, text and music) is ubiquitous. The process of creating such content using existing tools typically requires complex, language-laden interactions which pose a challenge for users with aphasia (a language ...
Baier Carissa K., Code Chris, Ireland Chris, Koushik Varsha, Mahmud Abdullah Al, Menger Fiona, Roper Abi, Roper Abi, Ryokai Kimiko, Taubner Helena, Voelker Simon   +10 more
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Conversational Therapy through Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well-Being in Post Stroke Aphasia

Behavioural Neurology, 2020
Aphasia is a highly disabling acquired language disorder generally caused by a left-lateralized brain damage. Even if traditional therapies have been shown to induce an adequate clinical improvement, a large percentage of patients are left with some ...
A. Giachero, M. Calati, L. Pia, L. La Vista, M. Molo, C. Rugiero, C. Fornaro, P. Marangolo   +7 more
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Predicting treatment outcomes for bilinguals with aphasia using computational modeling: Study protocol for the PROCoM randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Bilinguals with aphasia (BWA) present varying degrees of lexical access impairment and recovery across their two languages. Because both languages may benefit from therapy, identifying the optimal target language for treatment is a current ...
Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Dekhtyar, Michael Scimeca, Erin Carpenter, Nishaat Mukadam, Swathi Kiran   +5 more
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Resolution of diaschisis contributes to early recovery from post-stroke aphasia

NeuroImage, 2022
Diaschisis is a phenomenon observed in stroke that is defined as neuronal dysfunction in regions spared by the infarction but connected to the lesion site.We combined lesion network mapping and task-based functional MRI in 71 patients with post-stroke ...
Max Wawrzyniak, Hans R. Schneider, Julian Klingbeil, Anika Stockert, Gesa Hartwigsen, Cornelius Weiller, Dorothee Saur   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source