1Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA 2Aphasia Research
Laboratory, Boston University, Boston, MA Despite numerous treatment methods and …

We hypothesize that learning represents a critical, underexplored factor in aphasia
rehabilitation and suggest that predicting whether a patient will improve following therapy …

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 …

Previous research has frequently overlooked individual variability in learning and cognitive
abilities that may influence aphasia therapy outcomes. Thus, the current project examined …

Though aphasia is primarily characterized by impairments in the comprehension and/or
expression of language, research has shown that patients with aphasia also show deficits in …

Purpose. Children acquire new words through exposure, without the necessity for explicit
feedback by caregivers. In aphasia therapy, feedback to the patient is considered an …

Introduction Feedback is a fundamental aspect of aphasia treatments. However, learning
from feedback is a cognitively demanding process. At the most basic level, individuals must …

In order to elucidate the critical factors that bring about treatment-induced language
improvements, researchers have investigated many predictors of aphasia recovery; …

Background: Errorless learning continues to be much debated in rehabilitation literature.
Emerging data suggest that errorless learning is as effective as errorful learning when …

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