Savannah Speech and Hearing Center’s weekly Stroke Support Group has thrived under the guidance of 20 smart graduate students in the Communication Science and Disorders Program. For the past 10 weeks these amazing young women bring joy, laughter and community to the members of the Stroke Support Group. As always we are sad to see them go!
April Garrity writes:
Communication Help for Adults after Stroke (CHATS) is a service-learning experience in coordination with an existing community stroke survivors’ group at Savannah Speech and Hearing. Each week graduate students in the speech-language pathology program develop and facilitate weekly modules with the Stroke Group. These modules are designed to be fun and interactive, and typically focus on topics of functional communication for activities of daily living. Activities emphasize the use of any available functional communicative modality – including speaking, writing, drawing, and gesturing – in conversation. The goal is to provide a fun, supportive environment, in which group participants practice communication skills and build confidence in these skills.
April W. Garrity, PhD CCC-SLP
Associate Professor and Clinic Coordinator
Communication Sciences and Disorders Program
Armstrong State University
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