Studies Probe Restoring Speech in Persons With Chronic Stroke-Related Aphasia

Therapies Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

JAMA: March 27, 2013

During the 30 years Ana Inés Ansaldo, PhD, practiced as a speech and language therapist, she frequently encountered patients who, after being silenced by stroke-related aphasia for many years, were able to utter everyday words or link words into spoken sentences. As a scientist, Ansaldo wanted to find out why elderly individuals with chronic aphasia who had large lesions in the Broca area, a region crucial for language processing, responded to language therapy—contrary to conventional medical doctrine. Read more

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