Recent News
Jerome Kaplan selected as the recipient of the 2025 ASHA Outstanding Clinical Service Award.
Jerome Kaplan has been chosen as the recipient of the 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Outstanding Service Award. This prestigious award is given to only two individuals each year and is designed to recognize living ASHA members or National Office personnel who have offered outstanding and exemplary service … on behalf of individuals in their communities with unserved speech, language or hearing needs.
Jerome was nominated and selected for this award in recognition of his impactful and long-standing service to the aphasia community. He will be honored at the annual ASHA convention this November in Washington, DC.
Congratulations, Jerry!
A New ARC Documentary, “Living With Aphasia”
The Aphasia Resource Center is launching a documentary-style series to help explain aphasia, a communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process language. Check out a teaser clip of the soon-to-be-released video below.
A “Brief but Spectacular” Take on How Language is Your Life
The BU Aphasia Resource Center was recently featured on the PBS NewsHour's Brief But Spectacular segment: “how language is your life.” ARC community members Kate Kennedy and Allen Oliver shared their stories and journeys relearning to read, write, and speak after experiencing a life-changing stroke.
"With BU, all these people who have aphasia became a community."
Aphasia Resource Center Members Walk With Matt Green, star of “The World Before Your Feet”
Members of the Aphasia Resource Center walked through the Kenmore and Fenway neighborhoods with Matt Green, star of "The World Before Your Feet." Matt has walked more than 8,000 miles through all five boroughs of New York City. Another walk will take place in Fall 2019 as a fundraiser for the Aphasia Resource Center with the Sargent College chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA).
Jerry Kaplan Receives Innovator Award at Aphasia Access Leadership Summit
Jerry Kaplan, clinical supervisor and long-time speech-language pathologist at theARC, was honored as the 2019 recipient of the Innovator Award at the Aphasia Access Leadership Summit.
“After Words”: Documentary Co-Produced by Jerome Kaplan
The documentary "After Words" was co-produced by Sargent speech-language pathologist Jerome Kaplan and filmmaker Vincent Straggas. It features members of the BU Aphasia Community Group and others touched by aphasia and related disorders.
View the ASHA Leader article,“After Words”: The Story Behind the Film
Aphasia Community Group Celebrates 25th Anniversary
(Fall 2015) The Aphasia Community Group was featured in the Fall 2015 issue of Inside Sargent magazine.
Stroke Connection Magazine Features the Aphasia Community Group
(Fall 2015) "In collaboration with the Sargent Aphasia Resource Center, we have developed such innovative programs as an intensive aphasia treatment program, an aphasia community chorus, and have provided numerous opportunities for our members to participate in research, which has led to innovative treatment programs such as Constant Therapy," - Jerome Kaplan
National Aphasia Association: “An Interview with AVM Survivor Mary Borrelli”
(April 2014) ARC client and stroke survivor Mary Borrelli shares her recovery journey:
I was a participant in the pilot program called "Intensive Aphasia Program" at Boston University. One day a graduate student came to talk to us about the Aphasia Lab at Sargent College at BU. I signed up to be notified of any studies that suited me. I got a call from the Aphasia Lab to test pilot a new app on the iPad called “Constant Therapy.”I have been using it ever since.
Today.com: “If Gabby Giffords still struggles to speak, how can she sing?”
(1/9/14) Clinical Director Liz Hoover talks to Today.
Expert quote:
“We have many clients who really can’t say a single word in terms of conversation, but they can sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ and so forth.”