Having aphasia means making significant life adjustments but so does living with someone with aphasia! Join us for a discussion of the challenges that family and loved ones experience. Whether you are new to this or you’ve had several years of experience, please consider attending this one time meeting to problem solve with others who understand.
Date: March 26, 2018
Time 1:00-2:00 PM
Meet: Lobby of UConn Speech and Hearing Clinic
PLEASE RSVP: reneecayer7@gmail.com
This semester several of our aphasia group participants worked on a newsletter. This served several purposes including practicing writing skills for some and using oral-verbal language skills to describe photos for others. The primary goal was for our members to showcase their many skills and activities post stroke. We have surfers, mountain boarders, skiers, artists, golfers, and world travelers who are not letting aphasia and other symptoms of stroke hold them back! Please take a look at their work here: Aphasia Newsletter- By people with aphasia, for people with aphasia.
We in the aphasia rehab lab realize how lucky we are that so many people with aphasia are willing to contribute to science and to participate in our studies and in our aphasia groups. Some have found their participation so rewarding that they, or their family members have chosen to donate to aphasia research. Our most recent donation is earmarked to prioritize the needs of people with mild aphasia. Those with mild aphasia may not receive the services they need because they are thought to be “good enough.” We’ve spoken to several people though who are working hard on persisting reading and writing deficits and who have a goal to get back to work. We want to help make that happen. If you would like to donate to aphasia research you may contact me directly or make your contribution online.
The UConn Storrs and Farmington language-support groups are full for this semester, but please fill out this form to be added to our mailing list. Enrollment changes from semester to semester.
If you would rather call directly, or have questions, please call Jennifer Mozeiko at 860-420-9828.
The Clinical Aphasiology Conference is my favorite conference to attend. The scientists who are advancing our field turn up every year with exiting data from their labs. This year it included an update on data emerging from the Pirate program at the VA in Pittsburg, data collection from the popular Constant Therapy App, and findings from the Center for the Neurobiology of Language Recovery. They are always held in beautiful locations– this year at Snowbird in Utah. Find out more about how you can be part of treatment studies at the University of Connecticut and help to do our part to advance the field of aphasiology!
Congratulations to Shannon Hughes who ran an intensive treatment study and presented her findings to all of the first and second year students. Her thesis was entitled, “Schuell’s Stimulation Approach Administered Intensively for an Individual with Chronic, Severe Non-Fluent Aphasia.” Congrats, Shannon!
Second year MA student, Shannon Hughes, is pictured discussing her thesis study at the 2016 ASHA convention.
Samantha Coulombe, RA and Lab Manager for the lab, presented at the Fall Frontiers Research Poster Exhibition on October 26, 2016. This presentation was the final piece of the SHARE grant that Samantha had received last year. The poster “Effect of Intensive Reading Treatments compared to Intensive Language Action Therapy in Persons with Chronic Mild Aphasia” presented some preliminary data and a summary of the study that was completed over the summer.