Is There Reason to Hope With PPA?
Presented by Sarah Baar and Lisa Wauters
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Nonfinancial: Sarah Baar is a chapter author in Neurogenic Communication Disorders and the Life Participation Approach. She has no other competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Financial: Lisa Wauters is an employee for the University of Texas at Austin, University of California San Francisco, My Cognitive Concierge, and Memory and Aphasia Care Corp. She receives compensation from MedBridge for this course. There is no financial interest beyond the production of this course.
Nonfinancial: Lisa Wauters is a volunteer for the National Aphasia Association. She has has no other competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Speech Scope Episode 6: Is There Reason to Hope With PPA?
In this episode, Sarah Baar will be joined by Lisa Wauters, MA, CCC-SLP, an expert in primary progressive aphasia (PPA) research and treatment and the first author on a recent systematic review on treatment for PPA. Discover Lisa’s journey into working with PPA, and gain insights into effective treatment approaches. Get ready to delve into the most up-to-date research on PPA for actionable takeaways you can implement right away in your practice.
Learning Objectives
- Interpret the evidence around primary progressive aphasia treatment
- Apply evidence-based, practical strategies to actionably address clinical assessment and treatment choices with the primary progressive aphasia population
- Solve patient case scenarios involving primary progressive aphasia
Meet your instructors
Sarah Baar
Sarah is a speech-language pathologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has had the opportunity to work in many settings across the continuum, including acute care, acute rehab, home and community, and outpatient therapy, and has been involved in various leadership projects. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech Therapy…
Lisa Wauters
Lisa Wauters is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is part of the National Aphasia Association’s PPA Task Force. She recently published a systematic review of evidence for speech-language treatment in PPA. Other research projects that she has led have examined a treatment for agrammatism in…
Chapters & learning objectives
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