Amari DeBerry & Jana El Alfy from Women Huskies came to visit some of their biggest fans!  We asked them questions about practice, their nutrition, and their coach and found lots of similarities between aphasia recovery and being a division one college athlete! You work hard, you practice hard, you stay as healthy as you can by eating the right foods and being smart about exercise and you take help to get better– even when it isn’t easy.

We got to go watch them practice on the court the following week! GO HUSKIES!

Congratulations to Amanda Wadams who completed her PhD in August, 2023! She has begun a position as an Assistant Professor at St. Louis University.  She will be presenting her work focused on adding a metacognitive component to aphasia treatment this fall.  Come see her in Marseille, France at the Society for the Neurobiology for language or in Reading, UK at the Academy of Aphasia Conference.

Congratulations to our  undergraduate research assistant, Allison Shane, who was awarded a grant from the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund for her her honors thesis work!  Her work is going to help us to understand how treatment translates to the home environment. It’s great that someone gets better in therapy, but does this mean that these improvements are reflected at home???  Follow Allison’s work to see.