Doctoral candidate Julia Borsatto has taken Aphasia Friendly Canada’s training online, including a survey component that will assist her research on awareness of the neurological disorder. Photo by Nicole Willows.
Graduate student Dirusha Moodley runs the Word Exchange, a conversation group for people with aphasia.
A project of UWindsor psychology professor Lori Buchanan’s Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory helps people with aphasia practise speaking.
Julia Borsatto, UWindsor clinical neuropsychology graduate student, and Laura Pineault (B.Sc. 2016) are associate directors of Aphasia Friendly Canada.
There are few things more dispiriting than losing the ability to communicate. And yet, every year, thousands of people across Canada awake to a new reality filled with elusive words and illegible text.
It’s this growing population that a team from the University of Windsor has set out to provide with a new voice and a new lease on life.
