Analysis of Real-World Language Use in a Person With Wernicke’s Aphasia
Louisa has published the first of several studies where we analyze the communication environment in the homes of people with aphasia and those without. In this first study, we looked at changes in the natural language occurring at home before and after a massed practice type treatment with an individual with Wernicke’s aphasia.
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly sat down with former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and his wife, Jeanine, to talk about his life with aphasia, a condition which makes it difficult to communicate. Interview is here:
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026831053/i-want-to-do-more-gen-michael-hayden-on-living-with-speech-inhibiting-aphasia
Several students from the aphasia rehab lab have been accepted to present their work virtually this year. These have included the Academy of Aphasia, ASHA, and the upcoming Clinical Aphasiology Conference. We will also be presenting at this year’s UConn Language Fest 2021. Please take a look here:
Congratulations to Kaila Cote, ARL alum, on being named 2020 ANCDS Fellow!
https://www.ancds.org/past-student-fellows?fbclid=IwAR0dEgYAFA8QebSD8JsZzwf1zE9B2EShtELFl80kZ8tCmh8IHpSIxCiyKFw
Janet Patterson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Chief of the Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology Service at VA Northern California, speaks with Jen Mozeiko, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, about aphasia, discourse and communication, a project at the intersection of aphasia rehabilitation, adaptation deficits, gaming design, and community connectivity. Listen to the full podcast here.
Thanks to our research assistants Gabby and Joanna who have put together the Spring 2020 Newsletter!
Graduate student Yasheera Guadalupe interviewed one of our aphasia group members and his wife about what it’s like to have aphasia and how things have changed.
One of our outstanding undergraduate lab members, Shivani Padhi, submitted a virtual poster as part of a digital health conference offered by InCHIP at UConn. It’s a one minute video. Click here to view it!
Our grad students have put together this beautiful website with resources that are accessible for people with aphasia. Mindfulness, yoga, arts, and music are all laid out for you. Take a look!
The Aphasia Rehab Lab just put out a new publication in the Journal of Communication Disorders talking about the results of our survey of SLPs on the assessment, treatment, and discharge of people with mild aphasia. We dedicate this work to the memory of Bob Hasselberger who was a long time UConn aphasia group member. Bob participated in several research studies, was a mentor to those with a recent aphasia diagnosis, lectured in courses about the realities of living with aphasia. Bob also initiated the Advancing Aphasia Research Fund in 2017 and sat on the board to help make decision on the direction of research. The survey in the publication above was the result of one of those decisions. Bob died on February 16, 2020 at the age of 54. We miss him already.