Mary Boyle Part of International Project to Help People with Aphasia Tell Their Stories

来自英国、澳大利亚和美国的一个国际研究小组召开了为期一周的密集会议，玛丽·博伊尔（Mary Boyle）教授参加了会议，该小组发起了一个新项目，旨在帮助失语症患者讲述自己的故事，提高他们进行日常对话的能力。 Funded by the Stroke Association of the United Kingdom, the Linguistic Underpinnings of Narrative in Aphasia (LUNA) project also involves people with chronic aphasia and National Health Service Speech and Language Therapists in the co-design process. The team is developing a person-centered discourse treatment based on rigorous review of aphasia theories and intervention research. One of its elements is Semantic Feature Analysis, an evidence-based treatment for word-retrieval problems, developed by Dr. Boyle.

Photo from left to right: Professor Nikki Botting, City, University of London (CUL), Professor Mary Boyle, Montclair State University, Dr. Madeline Cruice, CUL, Professor Jane Marshall, CUL, Dr. Lucy Dipper, CUL, Associate Professor Deborah Hersh, Edith Cowan University, Australia, and Dr. Madeleine Pritchard, CUL.