Aphasia Center

What is the Aphasia Center?

A community of people who have aphasia and their families and friends all coming together and sharing their life experiences, challenges, and successes.
Specialty program of the Speech, Language, and Literacy Center housed within the IMPACT Practice Center.
Graduate students in speech-language pathology provide diagnostic and therapy services to people with all aphasia
Students supervised by licensed speech-language pathologists (SLPs)

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Naming the Aphasia Center supports its perpetual endowment. Please consider a gift in honor of its founder, Marjorie Nicholas.

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60+

Currently we have more than 60 clients/members with aphasia.

365

The Aphasia Center is open year-round.

Contact Us

We are located in Charlestown, MA, on the ground floor of 2 Constitution Wharf.

Aphasia Center

Graduate students in speech-language pathology provide diagnostic and therapy services to adults who have acquired and or degenerative neurological changes and are supervised by licensed speech-language pathologists.

Aphasia Center

aphasiacenter@mghihp.edu
(617) 312-5857
2CW

Esther E. Herring, MS, CCC-SLP

Instructor Communication Sciences and Disorders

Esther E. Herring, MS, CCC-SLP

eherring@mghihp.edu
(617) 724-6847
B39 - 206

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Aphasia News & Updates

Mary, a client in this year’s S-IHP’s CAP cohort, rides her adaptive bike as part of the program’s activities.

A Tip of the Cap to Program That Helps People with Aphasia

Wed, 10/19/2022

SLP student Simone Moss works with Aphasia Center client Leo Ross.

Commemorating 20 Years of Assisting Aphasia Clients

Thu, 08/04/2022

Top-Bottom: Allison Reid, SLP '20, Aphasia Center manager Rachel Pittmann, and client Amirtha Yogendran.

Coronavirus-Caused Telepractice: Aphasia Center

Fri, 05/08/2020

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Aphasia Resources

In the Boston Area

The Aphasia Community Resource Center at Boston University

bu.edu/aphasiacenter
Contact Julie Bertram: (617) 353-0197

The Robbins Center at Emerson College

emerson.edu/communication-sciences-disorders/robbins-center
Contact email: Robbins_Center [at] emerson.edu (Robbins_Center[at]emerson[dot]edu) or telephone: (617) 824-8323.

Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences

bouve.northeastern.edu/csd/clinic/
Phone: (617) 373-2492

In the United States

National Aphasia Association
aphasia.org

National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders
nidcd.nih.gov/health/aphasia

American Stroke Association
strokeassociation.org

National Stroke Association
stroke.org

Aphasia Recovery Connection
facebook.com/groups/Aphasia.Recovery.Connection

In Canada

The Aphasia Institute
aphasia.ca

The Heart and Stroke Foundation
heartandstroke.ca

Other Useful Websites

ASHA Website: Aphasia (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

Mayo Clinic: Aphasia

Aphasia Access (a network of healthcare, business, and community leaders to advance lifelong communication access for people with aphasia)

National Aphasia Association