To improve the attention deficits in aphasia patients \u2014\u00a0 which can impact language comprehension, conversational skills and overall rehabilitation outcomes \u2014 \u00a0Arianna LaCroix, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; her lab; and Daniel Evans, assistant professor and director of music therapy at Purdue University Fort Wayne, are conducting a preliminary study examining the effects of music and audiobook listening on attention and language in people with aphasia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[844,2613,1930,2614,2612,350,1306,240,176],"class_list":["post-48126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-aphasia","tag-arianna-lacroix","tag-attention","tag-audiobooks","tag-dan-evans","tag-department-of-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-music","tag-purdue-university","tag-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n