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Aphasia

Science, Engineering, and Innovation (for Everyone)

Robert St. Amant | Posted 11.19.2012 | Science
Read More: Kinect, Lilypad-Arduino, Arduino, Assistive-Technology, Dadhoc, Aphasia, Applied Science, Science News
Robert St. Amant

Chad Ruble's mother had a stroke some years ago and was left with aphasia. Ordinary phone conversation and email pose challenges. Chad built a system that helps his mother "Kinecticate" with her friends and family.

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When Her Husband Lost His Language, She Did Something Incredible

Debra Ollivier | Posted 06.12.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Neuroplasticity, Healing, Brain Science, Baby Boomers, Language Therapy, Diane Ackerman, Aphasia, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

Author Diane Ackerman was on a book tour promoting "An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain" when her husband, Paul West, suffered a massive stroke that radically combusted the alchemy in his own brain.

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What My Husband and Gabrielle Giffords Share

Diane Ackerman | Posted 07.05.2011 | Books
Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, And the Language of Healing, A Marriage, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, One Hundred Names for Love, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, Aphasia, Books News
Diane Ackerman

When I first learned that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot in the left temple, I felt a fierce pang for her, because I knew only too well what damage to that part of the brain can usher in-- a suite of disabilities, affecting everything from language to locomotion.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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