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    • New Aphasia Therapy Research (May 2011)

    Intensive Language Action Therapy

    With colleagues from the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, our research team from Anglia Ruskin University are currently running a project investigating how the brain may change following intensive language therapy in stroke patients.

    Specifically we are comparing a relatively new aphasia intervention known asIntensive Language Action Therapy or ILAT (also known as Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy, CIAT) with the effects of conventional speech and language therapy. We hope to be able to establish a short-term therapy as well as identify any factors which may be predictors of successful outcome.

    If you would like more information on this project, please follow the link provided.

    Stephanie Difrancesco                
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    In Stroke Rehab

    People with damaged speech recover faster by focusing on harder words

    Enhancing Communication in Aphasia through Gesture

    Jane Marshall


    If you watch people communicating one thing quickly becomes obvious. Human beings like to gesture. Most of us gesture while we talk.

    There will be times, also, when we use gestures instead of speech, e.g. to ask for a drink in a noisy bar.

    What is the purpose of these gestures?

    Disordered language, disorderd thinking?

    Dr Rosemary Varley


    If you have aphasia, can you calculate the following?

    5 - 7 =
    3/6 - 2/9 =
    50 - ((4 + 7) x 4) =
    (c - b) x a =

    Aphasia Recent Research

    Dr Jenny Crinion


    Part 1: A Closer Look at Recovery

    Part 2: New Approaches to Evaluation, Brain and language functioning

    Part 3: New Approaches to Characterisation and New Therapeutic Approaches

    rTMS

    Dr Penelope Talelli & Dr Rothwell


    Trascranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a safe and painless method to stimulate the human brain. TMS uses strong, brief magnetic impulses ..

    Constraint-induced aphasia therapy - CIAT

    Prof Friedemann Pulvermüller


    Intensive communicative aphasia therapy. We have developed a new method for the therapy of aphasia, which practices language in communication context in an intensive manner. The new method has been called Constraint-induced aphasia therapy, or CIAT.

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