Bilingual Miracles

When Swathi Kiran sits down with stroke victims struggling to relearn language, she brings hope with pictures and words. But while syllables, vowels, and consonants fill the air in her language lab, there’s something just as interesting happening in the background: brain mapping.

Associate Professor Kiran works with bilingual stroke patients who have aphasia—an impaired ability to understand or produce words or sentences. As well as finding new ways to help patients master language again, which you can read about in Inside Sargent, Kiran is researching the power of fMRI to track treatment changes.

Take a look at Kiran’s work on brain mapping, as well as BU’s latest aphasia findings.