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Health Literacy & Vascular Cognitive Impairment: Missing Links in Stroke Care

November 03, 2025

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Course Title: Health Literacy & Vascular Cognitive Impairment: Missing Links in Stroke Care


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Learning Objectives:

Self report knowledge gains related to vascular cognitive impairment and identify identification of symptoms in their patients. Self report knowledge gains related to ways to increase accessibility to speech therapy services in a language that their patients can understand. Self report knowledge gains related to holistic therapy ideas to incorporate health literacy into speech therapy services.



References & Resources:


Babiak. (2018). Thinking Outside the Diagnostic Box: Risk Factors for Cognitive–Communication Impairment. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2018-01-01 3(2): 51-58. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/persp3.SIG2.51 4100 - https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/persp3.SIG2.51 

Centers for Disease Control, 2023. What is Health Literacy? Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/learn 

Department of Health and Human Services, 2023. Social Determinants of Health. Retrieved from https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health 

Centeno, J.G., et al. (2023). Focusing Our Attention on Socially Responsive Professional Education to Serve Ethnogeriatric Populations With Neurogenic Communication Disorders in the United States. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.32(4)1782-1792.Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00325 

Dichgans & Leys. (2017). Vascular Cognitive Impairment. Circ Res. 2017;120:573-591. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.308426. Ellis, C. and Jacobs, M. (2021). 

The Complexity of Health Disparities: More than Just Black and White Differences. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Group. 6(1)112-121. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-20-00199 

Hasselkus, A. and Moxley, A. (2009). Health Literacy at the Intersection of Cultures. The ASHA Leader. 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.MIW.14042009.30 

Murray, L. (2008). Cognitive and Communicative Consequences of Cardiovascular Disease. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders. 18(4). https://doi.org/10.1044/nnsld18.4.152 

Y2 - 2024/12/21 Marte, M.J., Adesso, D., and Kiran, S., (2024). Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Communication Difficulties in Postroke U.S. Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Populations. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 33(1)248-261. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00232