To increase meaningful interactions for people with communication impairments.
WORDStim is in its infancy, yet it is grounded in established evidence based practices, including semantic feature analysis. Innovated by a speech pathologist to increase verbal behavior and strengths of aphasia patients, WORDStim has become influential in therapy practice of a growing number of clinicians. We are practicing speech pathologists integrating clinical and evidence based practices for function and meaning in the lives of the patients we serve.
President and Founder
Ayana Webb is a speech-language pathologist. She created and developed WORDStim to increase patients’ progress during aphasia therapy. Having accumulated ten years of clinical practice at the time she developed WORDStim, she noticed that regardless of severity level, patients were often stalled in depressed levels of language after initialtherapy. Focusing on conversation and motivational aspects of language tasks lead many of her patients through some barriers caused by anomia, and other aspects of aphasia.
WORDStim Educator and Affiliate
Melissa is a Speech-Language Pathologist who works with individuals and families
using a creative, analytical, and whole-person approach that goes beyond speech
and language.
She earned her Master of Science in Communicative Disorders
from California State University, Northridge, and holds a Certificate of Clinical
Competency in Speech-Language Pathology, certification in Assistive Technology,
and is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. Melissa works...
