|
About UMAP
|
|
|
Continued Intensive Therapy Benefits Adults with Aphasia
Article on Stroke-Network.com
By Mimi Block, M.S., CCC-SLP Clinical Services Manager, and
Joanne Marttila Pierson, Ph.D. Associate Director, University of
Michigan Aphasia Program
With intensive speech-language therapy, adults with aphasia
are able to recover their communication abilities. Intensive
therapy is defined as nine or more hours per week. It is best if
these hours occur in increments three days each week.
The University of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP) offers 23
hours of intensive therapy weekly. Upon completion of the six-week
program, many clients want to maintain an intensive therapy
schedule to continue to strengthen their language and communication
skills. As a result, the program has designed a therapy program for
home that will stimulate further recovery...
Continue reading the article on
Stroke-Network.com
for ways to continue intense therapy at home:
Related Links
|
|
