Try: Depending on the care recipient’s cr condition speech therapy may be a good treatment opiton short but intensive rounds of speech therapy may be better for restoring language skills lost to a stroke than other commonly used treatments researchers found crs who had difficulty speaking or understanding speech showed significant improvement in language and communication skills after a short term of intensive speech therapy many crs recover within a few months after the stroke but up to 60 still have language impairments more than six months after a stroke a condition known as chronic aphasia in a recent study researchers examined the effects of a short-term intensive round of speech therapy in 27 stroke survivors who had suffered from language impairment for about four years each of the stroke survivors received 30 hours of language training three hours a day for 10 days; their language skills were assessed before and immediately after the training as well as six months later the speech therapy used a technique called constraint-induced aphasia therapy or ciat which combines intense verbal communication training with language games that build simple as well as complex language skills the results showed that language skills improved significantly in 85 of the crs after the intensive speech therapy and those improvements were sustained for six months discuss this treatment option with the cr’s doctor to see if it is a possibility information references webmd com

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