You have a client who had a stroke and now has aphasia. They clearly have trouble finding words. How can you best help them? If after a thorough assessment you believe they have anomia due to an underlying impairment in…Read more

We all want successful community integration following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yet, wanting it and accomplishing it are often two very different things. Working with individuals following TBI, we often see clients struggling with skills essential to working, school, or…Read more

What do you see when you look at someone’s face? Is the person happy or sad, angry or confused, surprised or afraid? Sometimes a person may be saying one thing, but his or her face is saying something else. You don’t…Read more

To prevent falls, physical therapists and occupational therapists can recommend assistive devices and help patients improve strength, range of motion, and balance. So what can a speech-language pathologist do? An SLP’s role in fall avoidance varies. If we start by assessing…Read more

A common problem for people who have a right hemisphere stroke is left-sided unilateral inattention.2 Left unilateral inattention is reduced processing of information from the left side of the body and environment.3 Unilateral inattention is also referred to as hemispatial…Read more