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Comprehensive
Aphasia Center of Chicago (A Non-Profit Collaboration) |
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Overview | A Testimonial | Appointments | Personnel | Readings | Links
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Comprehensive
Aphasia Center of Chicago (A Non-Profit Collaboration) |
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Overview | A Testimonial | Appointments | Personnel | Readings | Links
The Comprehension Aphasia Center
of Chicago cares for people with acquired disorders of language, particularly
those from strokes. We take a comprehensive view of such problems, and clinic
evaluations and treatments are coordinated by a team of caregivers, including
a speech-language pathologist and a cognitive neurologist, both with doctoral
degrees and specialists in aphasia. All of the associated clinicians have
a significant experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients with
language disorders. Dr. Small, the Medical Director, has published many scholarly
articles on language and language disorders, and is Professor of Neurology
and Psychology at The University of Chicago. Dr. Cherney, the Therapy Director,
is a senior speech-language pathologist who has performed signficant research
in the area of aphasia diagnosis and therapy, and is Associate Professor
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University. Dr. Llano,
Staff Neurologist, is an Instructor in Neurology at The University of Chicago,
and publishes on brain mechanisms of audition (hearing).
The Comprehensive Aphasia Center
of Chicago has been built on a foundation of basic research in aphasia diagnois
and treatment at the Human Neuroscience Laboratory
at The University of Chicago and at the Aphasia
Research Center of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Some of the research papers published on aphasia from this research can be
seen below. For an appointment
at the Comprehensive Aphasia Center of Chicago,
please call us at 773-834-7780
and someone will get in touch with you. Duchossois Center for Advanced
Medicine Language and Aphasia Therapy Evaluation Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Steven
L. Small, M.D., Ph.D. is the Medical Director of CACC. He received
his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Maryland, and his M.D. degree from the University of Rochester School
of Medicine. He received his training in Neurology at the University
of Pittsburgh, and has been on the faculties of the University of Rochester,
the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland, and the University
of Chicago, where he currently serves as Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry,
and Psychology. Dr. Small has published widely in the area of aphasia,
including articles on treatment of aphasia and on the future of aphasia
diagnosis and treatment. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of
the National Aphasia Association and on the Governing Board of the Academy
of Aphasia. Daniel
Llano, M.D., Ph.D. is Staff Neurologist at CACC. He
received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and completed his neurological residency at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, the primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
He has published significant articles on basic research in brain physiology.
Dr. Llano is currently Instructor of Neurology at The University of Chicago. Small,
S. L., Flores, D., & Noll, D. C. (1998). Different Neural Circuits
Subserve Reading before and after Therapy for Acquired Dyslexia. Brain and Language,
62, 298-308. Listen to Dr. Small discuss aphasia on
the radio broadcast The Infinite
Mind.
A Testimonial from Dolly, who has had aphasia for more than 10 years and was one of the first patients to be treated at the Aphasia Center of the University of Pittsburgh, founded by Dr. Small.
Appointments
Cortical Neurology and Aphasia Evaluation
5758 South Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Fourth Floor: Neurophysiology
Directions
Appointments or Information: 773-834-7780
Fax: 773-702-2482
Email: small@aphasiatherapy.org
345 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60601
Thirteenth Floor: Aphasia
Directions
Appointments or Information: 312-238-6163
Fax: 312-238-2635
Email: cherney@aphasiatherapy.org
Personnel
Leora Cherney, Ph.D. is
the Therapy Director of CACC. She
received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Cape Town, Cape
Town, South Africa, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern
University. She is certified in Speech Language Pathology by the
American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) and in Adult Neurologic
Communication Disorders by the Academy of Neurologic Communication
Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS). She is the founder and director of
the Center for Aphasia Research at the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago, and is Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
at Northwestern University. She has many publications in the area
of language and the brain, including articles of aphasia therapy.
Small, S. L., & Solodkin, A. (1998). Neurobiology of Stroke Rehabilitation. Neuroscientist, 4(6), 428-434.
Joanette,
Y., & Small, S. (2000). Brain and language in the millennium. Brain
and Language, 71(1), 1-3.
Small,
S. L. (2000). The Future of Aphasia Treatment. Brain and Language,
71(1), 227-232.
Small, S. L. (2001). Biological Approaches to the Treatment of Aphasia. In A.
Hillis (Ed.), Handbook on Adult Language Disorders: Integrating Cognitive
Neuropsychology, Neurology, and Rehabilitation (pp. 397-411). Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania: Psychology Press.
Small,
S. L., & Burton, M. W. (2002). Functional magnetic resonance imaging
studies of language. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2(6), 505-10
Small, S. L. (2004). A Biological Model of Aphasia Rehabilitation: Pharmacological
Perspectives. Aphasiology, 18(5/6/7), 473-492.
Small,
S. L. (2004). Therapeutics in cognitive and behavioral neurology. Ann Neurol,
56(1), 5-7.
Small, S. L. (2004). Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Aphasia.
In R. Kent (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Speech and Language Disorders. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Small, S. L., & Llano, D. A. (2009). Biological approaches to aphasia treatment. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 9(6), 443-450.
Small, S. L. (2009). A Biological Basis for Aphasia Treatment: Mirror Neurons and Observation–Execution Matching. Pozna? Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 45(2), 313-326.
Lee, J., Fowler, R., Rodney, D., Cherney, L., & Small, S. L. (2010). IMITATE: An intensive computer-based treatment for aphasia based on action observation and imitation. Aphasiology, published on line.
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and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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Last Updated: March 20, 2010