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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​🧠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).

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​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:

• ​Intensive home exercise program chart - patient education/motivation
• ​Response Elaboration Training - caregiver handout

🌐 Something worth sharing​
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• Speech Scope podcast - Sarah Baar interviews Dr. Marion Leaman of ECoLoGiC-Tx fame. You can listen to the entire interview on YouTube or your favorite podcast app.

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

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Stay safe and be well,

Lisa
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