FOX 32 Chicago Interviewing Dr. Leora Cherney

FOX 32 Chicago Interviews Dr. Leora Cherney in Honor of Aphasia Awareness Month

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A recent segment on featured an interview with Leora Cherney, PhD, scientific chair, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Think + Speak Lab.

In the segment, Dr. Cherney celebrated the Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment’s 25th anniversary and its (ICAP), and highlighted the improvements in care for people with aphasia that have taken place in the past two and a half decades.

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“[Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment] is the first aphasia center in the United States to combine research and community programs for people with aphasia,” said Dr. Cherney. “We offer terrific activities like conversation groups, book clubs, and we actually have an aphasia choir.”