{"id":21,"date":"2010-05-06T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:05:36","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of the Aphasia Resource Center is to expand into a clinical and translational research center at Sargent College. We aspire to become the nation\u2019s preeminent aphasia clinical research and rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n<p>The goals of our research are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Systematically implement our previously developed assessment and rehabilitation practices to enhance the communication skills of individuals with aphasia.<\/li>\n<li>Develop a systematic, evidence-based protocol in diagnosing and rehabilitating patients with aphasia.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate effective translation of research evidence into clinical practice.<\/li>\n<li>Implement periodic and comprehensive behavioral assessments to monitor changes in communication skills among patients who attend therapy at the Center.<\/li>\n<li>Provide the infrastructure to foster interdisciplinary clinical research collaborations with other Boston-area universities that use the Center as a recruitment site.<\/li>\n<li>Provide an incubator for generating research ideas by junior faculty. We will support post-doctoral scholars, graduate students and visiting scientists who develop and pursue research projects that are part of the Center\u2019s mission.<\/li>\n<li>Disseminate and translate findings to scientists, clinicians and consumers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in participating in research or have any questions about ongoing research, please contact <a href=\"mailto:kirans@bu.edu\">Swathi Kiran<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiaresearch\/\">Aphasia Research Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of the Aphasia Resource Center is to expand into a clinical and translational research center at Sargent College. We aspire to become the nation\u2019s preeminent aphasia clinical research and rehabilitation center. The goals of our research are as follows: Systematically implement our previously developed assessment and rehabilitation practices to enhance the communication skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1403,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphasiacenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}