Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

A speech therapy program self delivered daily by use of an application for tablet computer significantly improved language scores in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, in a new pilot study. Brielle ...

Individuals with damage to the front part of the brain may have choppy or non-fluent speech. However, they can typically understand what people say fairly well. Aphasia is a communication disorder ...

A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...

Dear Doctors: I suffered a stroke about a year ago and have completed outpatient rehab. I have been having a problem understanding speakers at an event. I hear the sounds but can’t understand all the ...

After Paul Fraser's stroke in 2021 he struggled so badly to communicate that speech was nearly impossible and reading was out of the question. His diagnosis with aphasia — a brain disorder that ...