{"id":7078,"date":"2017-11-03T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2018-05-31T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:18:13","slug":"aphasia-theater-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/aphasia-theater-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPStages Program for People with Aphasia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Being an actor in a theatrical performance may not sound like an effective way to help people cope with the reality of speech aphasia, a communication disorder caused by brain damage that affects people\u2019s ability to think of words and understand them, but performers in the 2017 production of Wizard of Oz<\/em> proved otherwise.<\/p>\n The Aphasia Communication Theater (ACT), an innovative production implemented last summer by graduate students in Maryville\u2019s Speech-Language Pathology program<\/a>, was designed to improve the speech, language and social rehabilitation of participants.<\/p>\n