Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Stroke,patients,regain,ability,to,communicate,through,use,of,speech,generating,device"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-02-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (EurekAlert): Traditionally aphasic patients have been entitled to a few months of speech rehabilitation during a brief period of so-called "spontaneous recovery" when the brain physiologically heals itself from injury. But research, using computers to do extended therapy, now indicates that these patients can continue to improve even many years after their stroke or brain trauma. Lingraphicare America, developers of the Lingraphica speech generating device for aphasia, has published results of studies which show significant improvements after use of the device over a period of approximately 20 weeks. Speech generating devices are specialized computers that produce audible speech from words and images. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/la-spr021506.php " target="blank">www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/la-spr021506.php </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show