Michael Richard Fraas PHD
Speech-Language Pathologist
4 LIBRARY WAY DURHAM NH, 03824About
Dr. Michael Fraas is a speech language pathologist practicing in DURHAM, NH. Dr. Fraas specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Fraas evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Fraas helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Oral histories: bridging misconceptions and reality in brain injury recovery.
- The use of narratives to identify characteristics leading to a productive life following acquired brain injury.
- Enhancing quality of life for survivors of stroke through phenomenology.
- Concussion history and reporting rates in elite Irish rugby union players.
- Concussion knowledge and management practices among coaches and medical staff in Irish professional rugby teams.
- A systematic review of education programmes to prevent concussion in rugby union.
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