{"id":76805,"date":"2017-03-27T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//?p=76805"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:34:42","slug":"ucf-showcases-aphasia-house-at-international-leadership-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//ucf-showcases-aphasia-house-at-international-leadership-summit/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Showcases Aphasia House at International Leadership Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
International leaders who study and care for people who/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u2019ve lost their ability to speak recently gathered at UCF to discuss new therapy that can profoundly improve a client/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u2019s quality of life./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/n
Some 140 researchers and practitioners from across the United States and Canada came to discuss ways to serve individuals who have aphasia, a condition caused by a stroke or brain injury that affects two million Americans. Their focus was the /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u201clife-participation approach to aphasia/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u201d to help clients regain their speech and meet their personal needs and goals./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/n
AphasiaAccess, a Moorestown, N.J.-based nonprofit that promotes the approach, sponsored the 2017 Leadership Summit March 17-18 at FAIRWINDS Alumni Center./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u201cThe life-participation approach is a paradigm shift in how we think about the kind of life a person with aphasia can have,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/u201d said AphasiaAccess President Kathryn Shelley. She learned of the approach after her father had a stroke and she was desperate to find a way to help him./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76805/n