Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for our 9th annual Aphasia Choir concert on Sunday, June 2nd in honor of National Aphasia Awareness Month. Rehearsals started in late March, and we're having fun preparing a variety of popular songs for your enjoyment. Here are the details:

Aphasia Choir Concert
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024 2:00 p.m.
South Burlington High School Auditorium
550 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT
Reception to follow the performance
This event is free and open to the public

If you haven't heard of the choir before, here is more information: The group is comprised of stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors from Chittenden County and beyond who have expressive aphasia (difficulty talking or using language). Spouses, family members, UVM students studying speech-language pathology, rehabilitation professionals, and community volunteers participate as well. Because music is largely mediated by the undamaged right hemispheres of the brains of people with aphasia, they can sing and are often fluent while singing even if they have severe difficulty speaking or are nonverbal. My background in speech-language pathology and music enabled me to start the choir in 2014, and we were honored to receive the American Stroke Association's Stroke Hero Award for Outstanding Group in 2020.

Thank you very much for your support. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Karen McFeeters Leary
Aphasia Choir founder and director
http://www.aphasiachoirvt.org

Event Info

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