People with aphasia have enjoyed participating in the APEX program:

“Everyone was very positive! It was a really wonderful experience! The next thing for me is to get another positive in a group to join an exercise program that I see people and it will be two or three times a week. That’s what I’m looking for. The next step that I have to do is get a group and start doing it more because the study was really wonderful for me.”

“The people and the slow and high-intensity exercises we did!!!”

“I really liked it because we’re in a group. We weren’t on zoom! They had three PhD’s., undergraduates, and we had seven people who had strokes. We had a wonderful group of people and there’s a lot of energy. We had exercises and it was very intensive.”

“I want to come back in the future!”

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Results of an anonymous post-exercise survey:

• 9.6 overall satisfaction rating (out of 10);
• All participants with aphasia stated that they plan to join another exercise class & would join a similar exercise program in the future;
• Participants reported better physical shape, more energy, and improvements in language and memory.