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View Post: Aphasia NYC Blogger: Gift boxes for sale this weekend
5 hours ago by Aphasia NYC  
Members of the Adler Aphasia Center will be selling one-of-a-kind handmade gift boxes from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 28 and 29 in the parking lot at Market Basket, Franklin Lakes, weather permitting. Gift box designs include winter ...
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View Post: Conquering Alexia - Aphasia Toolbox's posterous
29 Sep 2009
Success in aphasia rehabilitation is about therapeutic time on task. This newsletter is the second in a series about the critical value of lots of patient practice both outside the clinic and more importantly when formal treatment is ...
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View Post: Comprehensive Aphasia Test
18 Nov 2004
The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) is a new test for people who have acquired aphasia and can be completed over one or two assessment sessions. The battery contains a cognitive screen, a language battery and a disability questionnaire ...
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View Post: Prognostic Indicators in AAC and Aphasia / Overall Implications
23 Nov 2009 by Lucia  
It is possible to observe in the literature reviewed below that the implementation of low-tech and high-tech AAC strategies have positive and negative factors to the functional communication of individuals with aphasia: ...
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View Post: Reduced Short-Term Memory Span in Aphasia and Susceptibility to ...
23 Nov 2009 by Callier Library  
In this study, we investigated the relationship between maintenance deficits and susceptibility to interference in a group of 20 aphasic patients characterized with weak semantic or weak phonological STM. Patients and matched control ...
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View Post: 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear': Man trapped in 23 ...
23 Nov 2009 by iRDMuni  
Doctors in Belgium have freed a hospital patient from a 23-year nightmare after discovering the man had been misdiagnosed with a coma. Rom Houben, now 46, suffered serious injuries in a 1983 car accident, leading doctors to conclude he ...
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View Post: The Good Life: Pregnancy-Induced Aphasia
18 Nov 2009 by Andrea  
Pregnancy-Induced Aphasia. Most days, I just don't have the words to blog. The energy drain that is the first trimester has taken its toll on my productivity. The house is just messier and my nap is just as crucial as Monica's. ...
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View Post: IPODCASTING: RDM Give it a listen! November Aphasia
16 Nov 2009 by iRDMuni  
I am great tools for the iPhone and Aphasia. Then Music lesson boost brain. Video Six Feet Under and Nine Thousand Needle. Please going for the Flu Shot. Then more pics and aphasia. Best wishes. Regards, ...
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View Post: Improved vocabulary production after naming therapy in aphasia:
21 Nov 2009 by iRDMuni  
Background: Naming accuracy for nouns and verbs in aphasia can vary across different elicitation contexts, for example, simple picture naming, composite picture description, narratives, and conversation. For some people with aphasia, ...
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View Post: Aphasia Toolbox: Odds and Ends 11/09
15 Nov 2009 by Aphasia Toolbox  
Pushpa began her training in aphasia rehabilitation in 2002 serving as a graduate clinician in the intensive treatment program at the Pittsburgh Aphasia Treatment Center when it was housed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. ...
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