Stroke Survivors and Families to Celebrate at Unique Garden Party
Thursday, August 10, 2006 • 11:30 a.m. • C.W. Post Interfaith Chapel

Learning to speak after a stroke can be a long process requiring therapy, support and patience. Beyond that, there is the challenge of easing back into the life that stroke survivors knew before they became ill.  

"Speech and language therapy isn't just about learning how to re-speak words," says Dr. Joyce Rubenstein, Ph.D., director of Jerrold Mark Ladge Speech and Hearing Center on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. "There is a social aspect to it. We are helping people to re-enter their own worlds." The Ladge Speech and Hearing Center offers speech/language rehabilitation and socialization for those who have suffered a stroke.

Clients of the Ladge Speech and Hearing Center will gather withtheir families, graduate clinicians, professors and supervisors at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 10 at a special Garden Party at C.W. Post's Interfaith Chapel. The party will include dancing, dining and an awards ceremony that recognizes such achievements as "Best Joke Teller," and "Furthest Traveler."

Attendees of the Garden party will be celebrating various milestones ranging from a successful trip to the grocery store to a day trip into New York City.

"We are celebrating people who haven't given up," Rubenstein says. "Despite difficult circumstances, these people continue to make positive changes. We're celebrating their spirit."

The Jerrold Mark Ladge Speech and Hearing Center serves as a complete diagnostic and therapeutic facility providing speech, language and audiological services for children and adults with communication disorders. It is also a training center for C.W. Post students, fully equipped with the latest audiological and testing materials used in the diagnosis and treatment of speech, language and hearing disorders. It is supervised by a full-time Ph.D. clinical director and a clinical faculty of speech-language pathologists and audiologists certified by ASHA and licensed by the State of New York. The program is accredited by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. The Center is operated by theDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders in C.W. Post's School of Education. Students enrolled in the program can earn a B.S. in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology or an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology.

For further information about speech and hearing services or the Center contact Dr. Joyce Rubenstein, Ph.D., Director of the Ladge Speech and Hearing Center at (516) 299-2437 or visit http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/edu/speehear/general.html.

Posted: August 9, 2006