by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Oct 22, 2025
Key Takeaways Speech therapy is highly effective after stroke, helping individuals regain communication, cognitive, and swallowing abilities through guided neuroplastic practice. Early therapy leads to the strongest improvements, but meaningful progress is possible... 
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Sep 30, 2025
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,... 
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Aug 21, 2025
Aphasia affects communication in several ways. It can impact your reading, speaking, listening and comprehension skills, making communication overwhelming and frustrating. For some people, aphasia can make everyday communication feel like solving a puzzle without all... 
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Aug 12, 2025
Speech therapy is the mainstay treatment for speech and language disorders. This therapy primarily consists of exercises and activities targeted at articulation, reading, writing, word-retrieval, fluency, coherence, comprehension, and speech production.... 
by Zach Smith, MS, CCC-SLP | Jul 22, 2025
You’ve recently suffered a debilitating accident and sustained a brain injury that has affected your ability to communicate effectively. Now the worst part is, you don’t even have health insurance, so you have to foot all the treatment expenses for your brain injury...
