How Constant Therapy Helps Support Speech Therapy for Stroke Survivors

Key Takeaways:

• High-intensity practice is critical, and allows stroke survivors with aphasia to achieve greater, faster, and more sustainable recovery.
• Due to a shortage of speech-language pathologists (SLPs), cost associated with care, and geographic constraints, there are access barriers that may prevent stroke survivors from receiving appropriate care.
• Constant Therapy bridges the gaps in care that exist in the medical landscape, by allowing stroke survivors access to evidence-based, personalized care that can be completed at an appropriate intensity needed to make progress.
• Constant Therapy empowers stroke survivors and families with scalable, motivating, and accessible therapy that improves communication and cognitive skills outside the clinic.

Constant Therapy: Speech Therapy for Stroke Survivors

• High-Intensity Practice
  • Provides daily access to therapy tasks, helping patients achieve the frequency and intensity linked to stronger recovery outcomes.
• Personalized Therapy in Real-Time
  • The patented NeuroPerformance Engine (NPE) AI system adapts exercises to each individual’s progress, ensuring that tasks are always challenging, but achievable.
• Expanded Access Beyond the Clinic
  • Offers home-based therapy anytime, anywhere, reducing barriers such as limited clinician availability, travel, or cost of repeated visits.
• Engages Users with Immediate Feedback
  • Reinforces learning by giving real-time feedback on performance, keeping users motivated and invested in their progress.
• Supports Clinicians with Remote Monitoring
  • Tracks patient progress automatically and shares results with clinicians, enabling them to adjust programs, guide live sessions, or integrate with teletherapy.

High-intensity therapy is essential for recovering from poststroke aphasia, but access to consistent care is often limited. Research shows that Constant Therapy’s digital platform can help stroke survivors practice more often, make faster gains, and stay engaged in their recovery.

Recovering from a stroke can leave people facing significant communication and cognitive challenges, including aphasia. While intensive speech language therapy is proven to support recovery, access to enough therapy hours is often limited due to shortages of speech-language pathologists (SLPs), travel barriers, or the cost of repeated clinic visits.

Constant Therapy offers a solution. This evidence-based app delivers home based speech therapy in the form of personalized speech, language, and cognitive exercises that patients can access anytime, anywhere—helping them access the high-intensity practice they need to be successful in speech therapy and cognitive therapy.

Why Intensity Matters

Studies consistently show that people with aphasia make greater improvements when speech therapy and cognitive therapy are frequent and intensive—five or more hours per week. This intensity drives neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself after injury. Without enough practice, progress is often slower and less sustainable. Constant Therapy makes poststroke communication rehabilitation possible at home, allowing patients to build up the practice hours linked with better outcomes.

What the Research Shows

Clinical studies and large data analyses have highlighted Constant Therapy’s impact:

• Early recovery: In the RecoverNow trial, 83% of patients used Constant Therapy for about an hour daily while still in the hospital, showing its feasibility even in acute recovery.
• At home vs. in clinic: Analyses of thousands of stroke survivors revealed that those who used Constant Therapy at home practiced more often and mastered tasks faster than those limited to clinic-based sessions.
• Clinical trial: A 10-week study found that people using Constant Therapy showed significantly greater improvements on standard aphasia tests compared to those using workbook-based therapy.

The takeaway: consistent self-practice with Constant Therapy translates into measurable language and cognitive gains, supporting the growing role of digital therapy for aphasia recovery.

How Constant Therapy Works

Constant Therapy’s patented NeuroPerformance Engine personalizes therapy by adapting exercises in real time. With over 91 task types across 14 domains, patients can work on skills like speech production, reading, memory, and problem-solving.

• Patients receive immediate feedback to reinforce learning.
• Progress is automatically tracked, keeping therapy challenging yet achievable.
• Clinicians can monitor results remotely, adjust programs, and use data from Constant Therapy to guide live sessions or teletherapy for stroke recovery sessions.

Teletherapy and Accessibility

Constant Therapy is especially powerful in teletherapy settings. Patients can practice independently between sessions, while clinicians review progress asynchronously. This increases intensity of speech therapy and cognitive therapy without adding clinician hours—an approach that proved invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains critical for patients in rural or underserved areas.

The Big Picture

Constant Therapy is helping to close gaps in access to speech language therapy by making high-intensity, personalized practice possible outside the clinic. While larger trials are still needed, evidence so far shows that frequent, self-managed use of Constant Therapy leads to meaningful improvements in communication skills. For stroke survivors and their families, it offers an accessible, scalable, and motivating path toward recovery.

Original article can be retrieved at:

Kiran, S. & Smith, Z.M. (2025). The efficacy and utility of Constant Therapy in poststroke aphasia rehabilitation. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, SIG 18 Telepractice. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_PERSP-24-00260