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Aviva Lerman

Ph.D.
Speech and Language Therapist
Clinician and researcher

  • Private practice in Jerusalem, Israel - adult rehabilitation

  • Research in the fields of aphasia, dementia, healthy aging, brain and language, multilingualism

  • Lecturer in the Communication Disorders programme in Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

  • Speech and language therapist on the adult rehabilitation ward in Hadassah hospital (Mount Scopus)

Areas of expertise in clinica practice

Clinical practice

Assessment and treatment of acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders:
  • Sudden onset aphasia
  • Primary progressive aphasia
  • Dysphagia (swallowing disorders)
  • Dysarthria (slurred speech)
  • Facial paralysis
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I am a qualified speech and language therapist with a doctorate in neurolinguistics (brain and language), with over 15 years of clinical and research experience.

 

In my private practice I make home visits to patients with speech, language and/or swallowing difficulties due to a variety of sudden and degenerative disorders. These disorders include: stroke, dementia, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, brain tumours, and other diseases. I also specialise in assessing and treating people who are multilingual (i.e., speak more than one language) in conjunction with these disorders.

 

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Areas of expertise in research

Research

I conduct research and have published articles on the following topics:

  • Healthy aging

  • Stroke aphasia

  • Primary progressive aphasia

  • Dementia

  • Brain and language

  • Language attrition

  • Multilingualism 

Recent publications:

Goral M. & Lerman, A. (2024) Advances in the Neurolinguistic Study of Multilingual and Monolingual Adults: In honor of Professor Loraine K. Obler. Routledge.

Lerman, A., Mais, D., Nissani, Y. & Malcolm, T. (2022). Preserving lexical retrieval skills across languages in a bilingual person with logopenic primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-24, doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.2020717

Lerman, A., Goral, M., Edmonds, L., & Obler, L. (2022). Strengthening the semantic verb network in multilingual people with aphasia: Within- and cross-language treatment effects*. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S1366728921001036

Goral, M., & Lerman, A. (2020). Variables and Mechanisms Affecting Response to Language Treatment in Multilingual People with Aphasia. Behavioral Sciences, 10(9), 144. doi:10.3390/bs10090144

Lerman. A., Goral, M., Edmonds, L. A., & Obler, L. K. (2020): Measuring treatment outcome in severe Wernicke’s aphasia, Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1787729

Lerman, A., Goral, M. & Obler, L. K. (2019). The complex relationship between pre-stroke and post-stroke language abilities in multilingual individuals with aphasia. Aphasiology, Special issue (Aphasia Management in Multi-ethnic Contexts). DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1673303

Malcolm, T. R., Lerman, A., Korytkowska, M., Vonk, J. M. J. & Obler, L. K. (2019). Primary progressive aphasia in bilinguals and multilinguals. In Schweiter, J. (Ed.) The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism. (Pp. 572-591). New York: Wiley.

Lerman, A., Edmonds, L. A., & Goral, M. (2018). Cross-language generalisation in bilingual aphasia: What are we missing when we do not analyse discourse? Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2018.1538493

Lerman, A., Pazuelo, L., Kizner, L., Borodkin, K., & Goral, M. (2018). Language mixing patterns in a bilingual individual with non-fluent aphasia. Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2018.1546821

Lerman, A. & Obler, L. (2017). Aging in bilinguals: normal and abnormal. In Ardila, A., Cieslicka, A. B., Heredia, R. R. & Rosselli, M. (Eds). Psychology of bilingualism: The cognitive world of bilinguals. New York: Springer

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Tel: +972-54-754-6678
 

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