ST. LOUIS – The 2025 St. Louis Walk for Apraxia will be held on Sept. 13 at Faust Park. Childhood apraxia is a rare motor speech disorder that makes it difficult for an individual to speak. The event ...

When my husband, Dr. Alan Schooley, was diagnosed with Young Onset Alzheimer’s at age 51, the Denver medical team recommended the MIND Diet, intense exercise and meditation. I worked the MIND Diet ...

Constant Therapy, a digital health company specializing in speech-language therapy, is collaborating with Burke Rehabilitation to launch an AI-powered post-acute speech therapy program for patients ...

Discover apraxia types, its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatments. Learn how this neurological disorder affects ...

If you’ve ever played Charades, you have some idea of what patients with aphasia go through. Life is a continual pantomime — using gestures but no words to communicate. Stroke survivors with aphasia ...

1 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, United States 2 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Neurology, United States Introduction: Lesion location has ...

In his new book How To Prevent Dementia, Dr. Richard Restak (neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, author, and professor) shared that some signs of dementia can show up first in everyday tasks ― including ...

Medicare Part B covers medically necessary speech therapy provided by qualified professionals, with no yearly limit on coverage. To be eligible for Medicare-covered outpatient speech therapy, a doctor ...

The earliest known description of a case of apraxia is attributed to Hughlings Jackson (1861) 1, although he did not give a specific name to the disorder. The term “apraxia”, from the Greek apraksía ...

Aphasia, most commonly caused by having a stroke, is a language disorder that impacts a person’s ability to understand and express language. The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences (CDS ...