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A recent segment on featured an interview with Leora Cherney, PhD, scientific chair, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Think + Speak Lab.
In the segment, Dr. Cherney celebrated the Center for Aphasia Âé¶¹APP & Treatment¡¯s 25th anniversary and its (ICAP), and highlighted the improvements in care for people with aphasia that have taken place in the past two and a half decades.
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¡°[Shirley Ryan Âé¶¹APP¡¯s Center for Aphasia Âé¶¹APP & Treatment] is the first aphasia center in the United States to combine research and community programs for people with aphasia,¡± said Dr. Cherney. ¡°We offer terrific activities like conversation groups, book clubs, and we actually have an aphasia choir.¡±