Funded Research in Progress

2005-2010 Developing Evidence-Based Treatments for Agraphia

RO1 Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. This grant will allow us to examine the therapeutic effects of several different treatment approaches for the remediation of impairments of written language. Participants in the research project will include those who have had stroke and have difficulty with spoken and written communication, as well as individuals whose impairment is relatively specific to written language.
Co-Investigators include Steven Rapcsak, M.D., at the Southern Arizona Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Kindle Rising, M.S., Research Specialist, Esther Kim, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, and Maya Henry, M.S., doctoral student at the University of Arizona.

2006-2009 Cognitive mechanisms and neural substrates of written language processing.

RO1 DC008286 NIH/NIDCD Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
Principal Investigator: Steven Rapcsak, M.D., Co-PI: Pelagie M. Beeson
Co-Investigators: Esther Kim, Kindle Rising, M.S., Sarah Andersen, Maya Henry, and HyeSuk Cho.

2005-2006 "Neuroplasticity in Chronic and Progressive Aphasia."

Pilot project funded by the Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Core Center. The major goal of this project is to evaluate the behavioral and neural response to intensive language treatment in individuals with progressive aphasia compared to individuals with chronic stroke-induced aphasia.

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