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Home-based therapy for chronic Wernicke’s aphasia
  1. Leonardo Bonilha1,
  2. Julius Fridriksson2
  1. 1 Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
  2. 2 Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Leonardo Bonilha, Department of Neurology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; bonilha{at}musc.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2017-315842

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    Many stroke survivors experience language impairments (aphasia) beyond 6 months to 1 year after the stroke. Language is a fundamental element in human interaction, and aphasia is independently associated with less participation in rehabilitation programmes, depression and worse quality of life.1–3 Nonetheless, aphasia is not an untreatable condition. Speech therapy can be greatly effective to improve verbal communication, even many years after the stroke.4 The problem resides in the fact that not all stroke survivors benefit equally from therapy; some achieve remarkable improvements, whereas others show no response. Moreover, effective treatment usually means several hours over many days of …

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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