by Constant Therapy | May 29, 2019
“The first word that I said was “tailgate” and I thought that is marvelous because if I can say ‘tailgate’, I can say anything… It is a long road to get there, but when we get there, it is beautiful because we can say our words again.” – Mary, recovering from... 
by Constant Therapy | Apr 16, 2019
The final season of Game of Thrones premiered this past Sunday, but the show’s biggest revelation occurred weeks before. That’s when its star, Emilia Clarke, published a personal history in The New Yorker that contained a secret: As the first season’s filming wrapped,... 
by Constant Therapy | Sep 21, 2018
What happens when the tables are turned and a speech-language pathologist is diagnosed with a condition for which she’s been treating her patients? Maria’s diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a neurological syndrome in which language capabilities become... 
by Constant Therapy | Feb 4, 2018
The right side of her body was totally paralyzed. As a teacher for more than 20 years, education had always been a major part of Mary Borrelli’s life. But she never imagined that at age 47, she would have to relearn everything she knew. Just after she was appointed to... 
by Constant Therapy | Dec 4, 2017
The multiple award-winning film, Still Alice, brings the issue of early-onset dementia to the forefront. This real-life story about how Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia, and her family deal with her diagnosis of familial Alzheimer’s disease at age...
