Adult Aphasia To Be Subject Of UB Conference

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Adult aphasia, a disruption in the ability to speak, write, comprehend or read, will be the subject of a day-long conference to be held Oct. 1 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

The conference will be sponsored by the UB Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences and the UB Center for Hearing and Deafness. There is a registration fee.

Aphasia usually is caused by a stroke or head injury that damages two particular areas in the dominant cerebral hemisphere called Broca's and Wernicke's areas.

The program will feature presentations by Linda Worrall, Ph.D., of the University of Queensland, Australia; Jon Lyon, Ph.D., a speech pathologist from Maxominie, Wis., and Ruth Patterson of the York Durham Aphasia Center in Ontario.

Alan Lockwood, M.D., clinical director of UB's Center for Positron Emission Tomography, will discuss the use of PET imaging in diagnosing aphasia. Carol Sellers and Dona Ritter-Schmidt, from UB's Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, also will participate.

For information and registration, call 829-2797, ext. 111.