NIH R01 · 2024
Improving Reading Competence in Aphasia with Combined Aerobic Exercise and Phono-Motor Treatment
Close to 2.5 million Americans are currently living with post-stroke aphasia, a debilitating communication disorder affecting multiple language modalities. Most stroke survivors with aphasia have acquired reading deficits, which persist chronically and severely limit life participation and autonomy. There is an urgent need for effective treatments grounded in stroke neurobiology which yield robust functional improvements. Treatments targeting impaired reading processes and aimed at restoring cerebral blood flow (CBF) can meet this need by directly remediating dysfunctional brain mechanisms. In the proposed R01 we will combine aerobic exercise training (AET) with an intensive phono-motor…
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