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EST Updates: A deceptively-easy aphasia treatment

Published 4 months agoย โ€ขย 1 min read

Hi Reader,
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Today, I'm sharing resources for a deceptively-easy aphasia treatment program that is effective for mod to severe impairments, even Wernicke's aphasia.

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โ€‹๐Ÿง What I'm working on

Spiral-bound book project: I'm up to 20 handouts (43 pages) ready to go!

I'm also contemplating my next blog post topic. If you want to weigh in, reply with your suggestion!

I'm debating the following topics:

  1. Sharing how I dramatically increased point of service documentation over the past couple of months (it might get a little personal).
  2. Talking about ECoLoGiC therapy and how it helped the first person I used it with (pretty dramatic, I think).
  3. Diving into Anosognosia (this would help my own clinical practice, too).

๐ŸŽ“Continuing education & colleague support

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โ€‹Improve aphasia outcomes by creating intensive home exercise programs. This is pretty much the opposite of ECoLoGiC therapy, in my opinion.

Intensive language exercise can have great results (like for this patient of mine), but it's not for everyone.

The related handouts are:

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  • ASHA members have free access to a one-page summary of the ECoLoGiC-Tx protocol, in the Appendix of the 2026 AJSLP article.

Thanks for reading!
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Stay safe and be well,

Lisa
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Eat, Speak, & Think

Medical speech therapist sharing tips and resources

I've been a medical speech-language pathologist since 2008, and I'm passionate about sharing useful tips and resources to help people living with swallowing, communication, or cognitive challenges.

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