At NYU Langone’s Rusk Rehabilitation, Elizabeth E. Galletta, PhD, is involved in both clinical and research activities. Clinically trained as a speech–language pathologist, she is a specialist in speech–language and cognitive–linguistic disorders secondary to stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neurologic disease.

Dr. Galletta’s research focuses on aphasia rehabilitation after stroke and takes a broad approach to improving language and communication in people who have had a stroke. As head of Rusk Rehabilitation’s Neurolinguistics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory, Dr. Galletta conducts research that combines behavioral speech–language aphasia treatment with noninvasive brain stimulation and aerobic exercise, which promote neuroplasticity.

Her work includes treating aphasia with impairment-based approaches that focus on training a specific linguistic form, as well as functionally oriented interventions, such as supported conversation and aphasia community groups.

Rusk Rehabilitation is one of the first medical facilities in the nation to provide therapy for people with aphasia and remains a leader in providing research-based aphasia treatments.

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