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“A lot of the therapy can now be done at home so caregivers can be active participants”

 

“There is no one drug that is going to cure everybody’s aphasia…The positive way to approach treatment is through precision medicine or personalized therapy that can be informed by data…”

 

“Caregivers might hear that their loved ones will only show improvements in the first few months after the stroke … This is an absolutely wrong statement.”

 

“…we don’t have a clear set of outcomes that we expect to see when someone has a stroke and is in the process of recovery [from aphasia]…we don’t have a clear standardized assessment that everybody administers and agrees on…”