Minnesota Connect Aphasia Now

In December 2013, Minnesota Connect Aphasia Now (MnCAN) was born as a new non-profit organization to continue the groups and provide the foundation for further growth and development in the area of services for people with aphasia. MnCAN currently serves 75 group participants with aphasia, has many community volunteers, and SLP graduate students from 3 area universities. NAA-article-4 Seventeen licensed and experienced speech language pathologists facilitate fourteen aphasia conversation groups and 2 support groups in the metro and out-state area. We train graduate student clinicians and communication partner volunteers to offer the aphasia group participants many forms of supported conversation strategies. Of course, it is easier and more normal to communicate with words, but having aphasia, by definition, makes using words and sentences more difficult. So, we use whatever works! We also encourage verbal communication whenever possible and the expansion of verbal skills. A...