Ep. 4 - Treatment of Aphasia in Persons with Primary Progressive Aphasia

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 4 - Treatment of Aphasia in Persons with Primary Progressive Aphasia Maya is a speech-language pathologist by training. She did her master’s and doctoral work at the University of Arizona, in the lab of Dr. Pelagie Beeson. Subsequently, she completed postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is the director of the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab. She teaches courses on aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders as well as the cognitive and neural bases of speech and language. Her research interests lie in the nature and treatment of aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders, with a special focus on primary progressive aphasia. Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab https://moody.utexas.edu/aphasialab The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration http://www.theaftd.org