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A new app significantly improves speech for people with a language disorder called Aphasia, caused by stroke, severe head injury and brain tumours
Published: 22 February 2024 A new digital platform significantly improves speech for people with a language disorder. This is according to an NIHR-supported study.
The study found that using the app over a 6-week period for around 90 minutes a day improved users’ ability to name 200 commonly used items by 13%. NIHR Research Professor Alex Leff, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, said: “Most health care systems massively under dose people with aphasia in terms of the hours of speech and language therapy that they are provided with. They found brain regions related to language perception, production and control increased in volume after practice with iTalkBetter.
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