Our latest article on sentence comprehension therapy and its generalization to discourse is now available in Aphasiology. It is part of a special issue on generalization in aphasia rehabilitation. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02687038.2014.997182#.Veg3EflViko
For eight weeks this summer, high school students taught stroke survivors how to use various forms of technology, smart phones, tablets, computers and various types of software. This program allowed high school students to understand more about aphasia and allowed stroke survivors to learn and troubleshoot their technology problems. Here is a picture on BU […]
Our latest paper is out on language control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=9704440&jid=BIL&volumeId=-1&issueId=-1&aid=9704435&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=
Relationship between levels of assistance and changes in treatment performance in individuals with aphasia-‐Understanding individual responsiveness to rehabilitation: Des Roches, Mitko & Kiran Evaluating treatment and generalization patterns of two theoretically motivated sentence comprehension therapies; Vallila-‐Rohter, Des Roches, Tripodis, Caplan, & Kiran Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Erin Meier, Melody Lo and Swathi Kiran Domain general vs. […]
Congratulations to Sofia Vallila-Rohter for her paper “An examination of strategy implementation during abstract nonlinguistic category learning in aphasia” accepted to JSLHR!
Aphasia Lab will present three posters on brain mapping and connectivity at the annual human brain mapping #OHBM in Hawaii in June. Vallila-Rohter, S., & Kiran, S. (2015, June). Neural activations during feedback-based and paired associate category learning in aphasia. Poster to be presented at the annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting, Honolulu, HI. […]
Anna Kasdan an undergraduate student in neuroscience and an Aphasia Lab for the last three years gave a talk at TedxBU. Check out her talk here!! http://livestream.com/tedx/TEDxBU/videos/82788728
Find the full article by following the link below, which will be published in a special issue of Aphasiology examining generalization following intervention. Kiran, S., Des Roches, C., Villard, S., & Tripodis, Y. (2015). The effect of a sentence comprehension treatment on discourse comprehension in aphasia. Aphasiology.
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Chaleece Sandberg successfully defended her PhD thesis and is off to Penn State University for a faculty position! Congratulations!