Speech therapy tailored for bilingual speakers with primary progressive aphasia

This study is testing whether customized speech and language therapy—designed specifically for people who speak two languages—can help bilingual individuals with primary progressive aphasia, a condition that gradually makes speaking and understanding language more difficult. Researchers will compare how well the therapy works in each of a person's two languages and whether the amount someone uses each language affects how much they improve.

While speech therapy has been shown to help people who speak only one language with this condition, very little research exists on whether therapy works the same way—or needs to be different—for people who speak two languages. This study aims to fill that gap and better understand how bilingualism affects a person's ability to recover language skills.