Author Archives: Yasmeen Faroqi Shah

We will host our 6th Communication Partner Training Workshop on October 31, 2015. Interested participants may register here http://tinyurl.com/kuad3mo Consistent with our mission to improve the knowledge base of intervention techniques for persons with aphasia, our Workshop is now part of a … Continue reading →

We found that persons with aphasia have a tendency to use more “light” (or general) verbs if their grammatical abilities are relatively preserved. Persons whose grammatical abilities are more impaired tend to use fewer light verbs. Conversely, persons with aphasia … Continue reading →

On June 27, 2015, Kristin Slawson and Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah hosted our fifth Communication Partner Training. Thanks to all the students who helped, especially Allison Yutesler and Tierney Evans. Also present were graduate students, Adam Redmond, Rachel Cavanaugh, Christa Wojcik, and … Continue reading →

On Saturday, March 7th from 2:30 to 4:00pm, there will be a screening of the short film, Aphasia: Hope is a Four Letter Word, starring Carl McIntyre. The film recounts Carl’s struggles in the first year and a half post-stroke. … Continue reading →

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We presented findings of our research this month at the Academy of Aphasia in Miami, Florida. Bilingualism, Inhibitory control and word retrieval: Is there a relationship? Time course of morphological processing in agrammatic aphasia Preserved processing of musical syntax in … Continue reading →