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Aviva Lerman
Ph.D.
Speech and Language Therapist
Clinician and researcher
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Private practice in Jerusalem, Israel - adult rehabilitation
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Research in the fields of aphasia, dementia, healthy aging, brain and language, multilingualism
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Lecturer in the Communication Disorders programme in Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
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Speech and language therapist on the adult rehabilitation ward in Hadassah hospital (Mount Scopus)
Clinical practice
Assessment and treatment of acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders:
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Sudden onset aphasia
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Primary progressive aphasia
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Dysphagia (swallowing disorders)
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Dysarthria (slurred speech)
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Facial paralysis
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.
Research
I conduct research and have published articles on the following topics:
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Healthy aging
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Stroke aphasia
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Primary progressive aphasia
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Dementia
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Brain and language
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Language attrition
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Multilingualism
Recent publications:
Neumann, Y., Leaman, M., & Lerman, A. (2026). Establishing the Effects of Bilingual ECoLoGiC-Tx for People with Aphasia: A Single-Subject Controlled Experimental Study. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 1-18
Lerman, A., Bihovsky, A., Meir, N., Ben Shachar, M., & Goral, M. (2025). Language mixing in people with aphasia: A cross-linguistic analysis using the 4M model. Brain and Language.
Lerman, A. & Malcolm, T. R. (2025). Facilitation and interference effects during cognate retrieval in a multilingual person with aphasia. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 1-18. DOI: 10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00233
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
Contact Me
Tel: +972-54-754-6678