{"id":135814,"date":"2023-06-19T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//?p=135814"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:58:54","slug":"how-ucfs-aphasia-house-helps-patients-like-kyle-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//how-ucfs-aphasia-house-helps-patients-like-kyle-burke/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814//","title":{"rendered":"How UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s Aphasia House Helps Patients Like Kyle Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"

It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s a Thursday morning in late April and the sound of excited voices and laughter are emanating from the large kitchen at the Aphasia House. Gathered inside are a small army of graduate students, clad in matching black polos embroidered with the name of their program: Communication Sciences and Disorders. They are all studying to become speech-language pathologists./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s graduation day. But not for the students./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s a commencement ceremony for their patients. In this case, four adults with aphasia /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2014 a communication disorder that can occur suddenly following a stroke or head injury but may also develop slowly from a brain tumor or a progressive neurological disease. June is Aphasia Awareness Month./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

One of these four patients is Kyle Burke, a constantly smiling 25-year-old who seemingly knows everyone in the room./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

He arrives at the ceremony in an orange Clemson University T-shirt. In May 2020, he was enrolled as a student and celebrating the completion of final exams and making the dean/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s list when the pandemic brought him back home. It was there that a skateboarding accident would leave him with a traumatic brain injury and an inability to speak, write or understand language./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

His family found the Aphasia House at UCF /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2014 one of just a few of its kind in the country and known for its intensive and highly-personalized treatment./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u201cKyle/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s a young guy and I just thought, ‘what a perfect environment,’ /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u201d recounts his mother, Deborah Burke, in an early interview. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u201cThis is what he needs. He needs to be out with a bunch of people in a college environment. And he was excited./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

In October of 2021, Burke began his first delivery of the six-week program at UCF./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

On April 21, 2023, he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/u2019s completed the program for what marks his eighth and final time./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135814/n

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