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About UMAP
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UMAP News Archives
Here you can find any of the stories highlighting UMAP that we've featured on the website. Some of these pieces are from local and/or national newspapers and follow former clients and their experiences at UMAP, while others are from speech-language pathology and related journals, discussing the merits of our program.
Reading these stories will give you an inside look into UMAP's philosophy and the positive impact our intensive speech-language therapy program has on its clients and their families. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at 734.764.8440 or ucll@umich.edu.
2006
- A case of parenting as therapy - Stoke Connection Magazine (January/February 2006): As all survivors know, stroke changes your life in major ways, but if you want a real life-changing event, have twins. Chris Bulthuis has had both experiences, and though both were unexpected, they have combined into a satisfying new role - stay-at-home dad...Click here to read the full article.
- Aphasia: It's never too late to offer patients hope - Applied Neurology (January 2006): The ability to communicate is often taken for granted, frequently noticed less by its presence than by its absence. Aphasia--a brain disorder that impairs the ability to speak, read, write, or comprehend others--is a devastating problem that tends to be ignored except by those directly affected. Although public appreciation of aphasia is limited, the problem is not rare...Click here to read the full article.
- Profile of a Center of Excellence: University of Michigan's Residential Aphasia Program - Applied Neurology (January 2006): Patient information and support groups for aphasia abound, and community-based treatment programs are growing in number, but one program stands out: the University of Michigan's Residential Aphasia Program (RAP)...Click here to read the full article.
2005
- Stroke effects linger: Aphasia impairs woman's ability to use and comprehend words - The Pantograph (12/5/2005): For years, Nancy Hyatt, 56, did what most of us take for granted. She filtered through noises at large gatherings to focus on what one person was saying...Click here to read the full article.
- Slow path to healing - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee, 6/19/2005): For Bill and Kathy Wilder, of Signal Mountain, a September Saturday event last fall became a very personal sort of 9/11 that changed their family's world...Click here to read the full article.
- Program helps people find voice after stroke - Birmingham-Bloomfield Eagle (February 16, 2005): In the aftermath of a stroke or closed-head injury, some survivors must overcome one-sided paralysis, memory problems, and loss of language. An intense program at the University of Michigan helps patients regain communication skills...Click here to read the full article.
- Without words: Patient learns to speak again - Observer & Eccentric (February 13, 2005): Philip Gach renewed his driver's license last July. It might not seem like a major accomplishment, but for Gach it meant everything just to be able to answer the examiner's questions...Click here to read the full article.
2004
- Aphasia Recovery Inspires Poetry - The ASHA Leader (September 7, 2004): In August 2001, Rick Knupfer, then executive director of the Michigan Humanities Council, and an aspiring creative writer and poet, knew he was ill. He was having trouble speaking clearly, and his organizational skills had severely deteriorated...Click here to read the full article.
- After a stroke, words fail - Ann Arbor News, Diane Gale Andreass (8/3/2004): Chris Bulthuis stands at the kitchen sink preparing two bottles for his 3-month-old twins as he quietly describes the difficulties he still grapples with after having a stroke last year...Click here to read the full article.
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