aphasia research center
aphasia research center
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The ability to speak is one of the most intriguing and complex functions of the human brain. When this ability is hindered due to brain injury, it can have a devastating impact on the person's quality of life. The overarching goal of our research is to improve communication outcomes for individuals whose ability to speak has been impacted by brain injury, a condition called aphasia. We are specifically interested in sentence production and word retrieval abilities and their breakdown in aphasia, language learning and training-induced neural plasticity, and their interaction with bilingualism and cognitive mechanisms.
Our studies focus on persons with stroke-induced left hemisphere injury (a condition called aphasia) and neurologically healthy individuals. Most of our research uses on behavioral paradigms, but we also utilize cognitive neuroscience methods, including magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Please explore our research, publications, who we are, and how you can participate or contact us. Our companion website for bilingual language assessment is here.
Sentence production in aphasia
Sentence production in aphasia
The Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Sentence Production Impairment in Aphasia project is aimed at understanding the linguistic and neural disruptions that result in symptoms of agrammatic aphasia. Employing novel psycholinguistic and magnetoencephalography (MEG) techniques, it challenges longstanding theories and promises possibilities of new pathways for treating aphasia. This project is a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health to Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah & L. Robert Slevc. More...
We are actively recruiting for this study.
Ai supports for aphasia
Ai supports for aphasia
This project, called From bench to bedside and back again: Co-designing AI-supported clinical interventions for aphasia is aimed building communication technology for persons with aphasia that is enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI). The technology will support their day to day communication and language therapy. We will work with persons with aphasia, their care partners, and clinicians as active partners to ensure resulting tools are personalized, usable, and responsive to lived experience. This project is funded by Artificial Intelligence at Maryland to Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah & Stephanie Valencia Valencia.
spanish-english aphasia (SEA) Battery
spanish-english aphasia (SEA) Battery
The Diagnostic Markers of Language Impairment in Bilingual Adults project aims to improve services for Spanish-English speaking adults who need to see a Speech-Language Pathologist due to brain injury. We are developing language assessments to more accurately diagnose aphasia. We aim to improve access to speech-language therapy services for bilingual speakers and reduce health disparities by making the SEA Battery freely accessible to clinicians and researcheres. This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health to Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah. More...
cALM research REGISTRY
cALM research REGISTRY
The Communication Across the Lifespan at Maryland (CALM) initiative is led by Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and is a collaboration among faculty researchers at the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. CALM is a registry of participants interested in participating in a variety of often paid studies. Learn more about CALM here.
Participate in our research by calling (301-405-2477), emailing (aphasia@umd.edu), (bilingual@umd.edu, or filling out this contact form.
Participate in our research by calling (301-405-2477), emailing (aphasia@umd.edu), (bilingual@umd.edu, or filling out this contact form.
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