Aphasia is a communication disorder that arises from damage to the brain's language areas,
affecting comprehension, expressive language, reading, and writing. This condition severely …

People with aphasia (PWA) present with language deficits including word retrieval
difficulties after brain damage. Language learning is an essential life-long human capacity …

Speech and language therapy can be an effective tool in improving language in post-stroke
aphasia. Despite an increasing literature on the efficacy of language therapies, there is a …

Background. Word learning ability has been associated with treatment outcomes in people
with aphasia (PWA)(Dignam et al., 2O16). Our previous work has provided evidence for …

Novel word learning has been rarely studied in people with aphasia (PWA), although it can
provide a relatively pure measure of their learning potential, and thereby contribute to the …

Aphasia is an impairment in the expression or comprehension of language that results from
stroke, traumatic brain injury or progressive neurological disease. Approximately one million …

The present case study investigated modality-specific aspects of novel word acquisition in
aphasia. It was prompted by recent aphasia case studies indicating great interindividual …

Objective: Of current interest in aphasia research is the relevance of what we can learn from
studying word learning ability in aphasia. In a preliminary study, we addressed 2 issues …

The focus of much investigation in aphasiology has been on assessment of spared vs.
impaired performance, with relatively less investigation of spared vs. impaired (re) learning …

Background: Novel word learning of persons with aphasia is little studied, even though a
better understanding of learning processes would inform development of effective treatment …