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A global multilingual cocreation of aphasia priority topics through patient and public involvement [PDF]

Research Involvement and Engagement
Background People living with chronic aphasia (PWA) face long-term challenges that go well beyond communication difficulties, including emotional, social, and societal barriers.
Jean Marie Annoni, Marina Charalambous, Jernej Sluga, Clotilde Marteel, Javier Gil, Reto Strähler, Fanni Eckhardt, Colin Lyall, Davide Crovetti, Hanka Mayhew, Alexia Kountouri, Claire Bennington, Silvia Rubio   +12 more
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Type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study implementing and evaluating the Comprehensive High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) programme in Australian rehabilitation services: a protocol [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction The Comprehensive High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) programme is an intensive comprehensive aphasia programme, which aims to address evidence-practice gaps in aphasia rehabilitation where there are known barriers to service delivery ...
Monique F Kilkenny, Dominique A Cadilhac, Emma Power, Natasha A Lannin, David A Copland, Sarah J Wallace, Kirstine Shrubsole, Annie J Hill, Marie-Pier McSween, Jade K Dignam, Rachel Levine, Brooke J Ryan   +11 more
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Co‐Design of a Unified, International Aphasia Awareness Campaign [PDF]

Health Expectations
Introduction Poor aphasia awareness is an international problem. Previous aphasia awareness campaigns have lacked coordination across countries and have not routinely involved people with the diversity of skills needed to design a campaign.
Claire Bennington, Ciara Shiggins, Jytte Isaksen, Emma Beesley, Kim Beesley, Jean‐Marie Annoni, Jude Czerenkowski, Carly Davey, Natalie Douglas, Alexia Kountouri, Caitlin Longman, Apoorva Paurinak, Sarah Scott, Kathryn Shelley, Sarah J. Wallace   +14 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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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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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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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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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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Statistical analysis plan for the COMPARE trial: a 3-arm randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of Constraint-induced Aphasia Therapy Plus and Multi-modality Aphasia Therapy to usual care in chronic post-stroke aphasia (COMPARE)

Trials, 2021
Background While high-quality meta-analyses have confirmed the effectiveness of aphasia therapy after stroke, there is limited evidence for the comparative effectiveness of different aphasia interventions.
Miranda L. Rose, Tapan Rai, David Copland, Lyndsey Nickels, Leanne Togher, Marcus Meinzer, Erin Godecke, Joosup Kim, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Melanie Hurley, Cassie Wilcox, Marcella Carragher   +11 more
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