How do people with aphasia and their partners navigate text messaging? And how do texting patterns change throughout recovery? New #AJSLP article explores these questions about the role of texting among people with aphasia. https://on.asha.org/3Q6HCZn

Navigating Texting With Aphasia: Insights From People With Aphasia and Their Partners

Purpose: Text messaging is a widely used mode of communication. Like people without aphasia, people with aphasia use texting to communicate with ...

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Excited to share the first step toward a new line of work I'm developing here at Hopkins, pushing toward usable early prognosis in post-stroke aphasia: acute-phase ML models predicting 12-month recovery across both standardized measures *and* discourse outcomes!

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Acute-Phase Machine Learning Prediction of 12-Month Aphasia and Discourse Recovery https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.26353123v1

The speech and language therapist’s role in supporting decision-making for people with aphasia: an international cross-sectional survey www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The speech and language therapist’s role in supporting decision-making for people with aphasia: an international cross-sectional survey

This is the first study to describe how speech and language therapists (SLTs) support people with aphasia during decision-making conversations and mental capacity assessments across countries.Conve...

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Resilience can be an important contributing factor in poststroke aphasia rehabilitation, but it remains underdefined and understudied. Read about a psychometrically robust resilience scale you can use in the clinic https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00621 @udelaware.bsky.social

A Modified and Validated Resilience Scale for Individuals With Aphasia

Purpose: Resilience is an underdefined, understudied, yet potentially critical contributor to poststroke aphasia rehabilitation. Resilience measu...

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We're excited to share our new study on decoding brain activity in participants with post-stroke aphasia! We think this is an important step towards cognitive brain-computer interfaces for patients with language disorders www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Study investigated factors influencing the operationalization of AOS assessment methods, mainly interrater reliability of perceptual characteristics of differentially diagnostic measures in order to inform assessment methods in AOS w/ concomitant #aphasia. https://on.asha.org/4voUAlg

Reliability of Perceptual Measurement of Apraxia of Speech Characteristics

Background: Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) in the presence of co-occurring aphasia and/or dysarthria are...

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Inner speech may be a good predictor of naming treatment outcomes in aphasia. This study shows that inner speech can be a useful tool for monitoring changes during naming therapy https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00357 @feinberg.northwestern.edu

Inner Speech Can Predict Naming Treatment Outcomes in Aphasia: A Pilot, Single-Subject Design Study

Purpose: This single-subject design study examined whether self-reported inner speech (IS)—the subjective experience of retrieving a word interna...

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In big healthcare organisational change, you can see how taking a more organic, unfolding, relational, 'learn-as-we-go' approach comes up against a need to know, a need for certainty, a need for clear solutions & things to measure. Think we'd do well to name this tension more than we do.

Intensive comprehensive aphasia approaches are growing in popularity but their theory is incomplete. This study uses Theory of Change & logic modelling to map how ICAPs work & highlight knowledge gaps. https://on.asha.org/47R4RMF

A Provisional Theory of Change and Basic Logic Model for Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs

Purpose: People with aphasia have a comprehensive range of needs due to their language impairment and its resulting impact on everyday life. Apha...

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Language comprehension in chronic aphasia relies on the language network, not the Multiple Demand network www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Language comprehension in chronic aphasia relies on the language network, not the Multiple Demand network

The mechanisms of aphasia recovery following left-hemisphere stroke remain debated. Two broad hypotheses have been proposed for how recovery occurs when specialized systems, such as the language syste...

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Stroke survivors often face problems in language, motor, & cognitive skills because of neural network overlap. Authors look at these & how integrating speech & language therapy with arm ability training affects recovery in patients with Broca's aphasia. https://on.asha.org/3OWTcFv

Effects of Combining Modified Response Elaboration Training, Semantic Feature Analysis, and Arm Ability Training on Cognitive, Language, and Motor Recovery in Poststroke Broca's Aphasia

Purpose: Stroke survivors often face problems in language, motor, and cognitive skills because the neural networks for these functions overlap. C...

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Longitudinal prediction of naming and connected speech in post-stroke aphasia: Contribution of acute white matter characteristics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41619614/

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In the latest from #AJSLP, authors evaluate a 10-week aphasia intervention aimed at improver conversational language. Learn more about this pilot study and its implications! https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00113 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

This article from #ASHASIG2 looks at a new intervention for sentence production that can be tailored to people with aphasia https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00053 #SLPeeps #SLP2B

Some left-hemisphere stroke survivors have self-reported aphasia, despite scoring above the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised cutoff. This article examines rapid lexical retrieval and executive functioning in very mild aphasia. https://on.asha.org/49hAnEE

Rapid Lexical Retrieval and Executive Functioning in Very Mild Aphasia

Purpose: Left-hemisphere stroke survivors who score above the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised (WAB-R) cutoff, but have self-reported aphasia, hav...

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AJSLP is closing out 2025 with a whole issue of aphasiology resources for clinicians! Learn about the special issue full of articles developed from the 53rd Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Context! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2025/12/the-latest-aphasia-resources-for-clinicians-in-ajslp/

The Latest Aphasia Resources for Clinicians in AJSLP - ASHA Journals Academy

More than 2 million Americans have aphasia, and that number is growing annually. Every year, clinicians and researchers gather to present new findings in aphasia and other neurologic language disorder...

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Just published in open access; we are tremendously proud to have contributed to this landmark paper: Brady et al. (2025). European Stroke Organisation Guideline on Aphasia Rehabilitation. European Stroke Journal 10(4), 1189-1220. doi.org/10.1177/2396...

Due to potential barriers to telepractice with nonspoken communication modalities, authors of this research article sought to evaluate the Multimodal Communication Treatment with discourse via telepractice for people with aphasia. https://on.asha.org/3MGEMrX

The Feasibility of Modified Multimodal Communication Treatment With Discourse via Telepractice for People With Aphasia

Purpose: Multimodal Communication Treatment with discourse via telepractice (teleMCT+D) is a modified version of Multimodal Communication Treatme...

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I've yet to see a hardcopy myself but Amazon has some actual photos posted.

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In "Wired for Words," cognitive neuroscientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

Pleased to share our paper published online today! Highlighting the #stroke rehab unit experiences of stroke survivors with #aphasia @lindseythiel.bsky.social @basaphasia.bsky.social @clinacslt.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MQ3E6...

The requirements, the relationships, and the rules: experiences and perceptions of how time is spent supporting recovery on a stroke rehabilitation unit for stroke survivors with aphasia

Stroke survivors with aphasia experience a range of challenges during hospital-based stroke rehabilitation. These include limited rehabilitative activities and difficulties interacting with healthc...

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Study sought to improve production of locative adjuncts in sentence & discourse tasks in persons w/ aphasia using implicit structural priming. They examined what factors impact degrees of structural priming effects. https://on.asha.org/4pft8SP @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social

Priming Adjuncts in Sentence and Discourse Production in Neurotypical Adults and Persons With Aphasia

Purpose: Although optional elements of speech, speakers frequently use adjunct phrases (e.g., on the rug, by the weekend) to enrich message conte...

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#JSLHR study evaluated the feasibility & effectiveness of the comprehensive, high-dose aphasia treatment (CHAT) program, a modified-ICAP, when implemented by a public rehabilitation facility in Brisbane, Australia. https://on.asha.org/4o1wLL9 @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Clinical Effectiveness of the Comprehensive, High-Dose Aphasia Treatment Program for People With Poststroke Aphasia

Purpose: Intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) are a novel service delivery model incorporating best practice principles in aphasia re...

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Authors examined if phase synchrony index (PSI) from resting-state EEG could predict aphasia recovery after #stroke. PSI, particularly inter-temporal PSI, may reflect recovery-related changes in networks post-stroke and could be a biomarker of aphasia recovery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

PhD application deadline Dec 15th Excited to bring on a mentee to advance our precision rehabilitation of anomia research at the intersection of #cogsci and #aphasia

Nichol Castro@nicholcastro.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm open to accepting a #PhD student in #CDS beginning Fall 2026 at #UBuffalo! Join me in tackling questions about precision rehab of #anomia to improve communication and quality of life of people living with #aphasia A few things to consider, but also *please* reach out

Directly rating 4 key dimensions w/ an auditory-perceptual approach shows promise as a highly efficient way to analyze connected speech in aphasia; more work will be necessary to develop this approach for clinical applications. https://on.asha.org/3LtXbb7 @sigperspectives.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Feasibility of Auditory-Perceptual Rating of Four Dimensions of Connected Speech in Aphasia

Purpose: The purpose of this preliminary research study was to evaluate the feasibility of directly rating four dimensions of connected speech in...

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Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new @psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire... .

Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

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Individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after stroke. This article from #ASHASIG2 shows how SLPs can guide conversations and support adults with aphasia who wish to return to work https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00021 #SLPeeps #SLP2Be

Workplace Reentry for Adults With Aphasia: Understanding Definitions and Motivations

Purpose: Research has shown that individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after their stroke. While individuals living with aphasia want...

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Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia. The validity and reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia (TEXT-A) rating scale are evaluated in this recent #JSLHR study. https://on.asha.org/4qPiILu

Validity and Reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia Rating Scale

Purpose: Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia (PWA). Given the chronicity of aphasia and the ...

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