Combined Exercise and Targeted Therapy for Post-Stroke Reading Deficits

The goal of PMT is to build orthographic and phonological awareness and phonological sequence knowledge. During PMT, participants will complete a series of tasks manipulating minimal sound units (consonants (C) \& vowels (V)), combining these units into syllables (CVC, CVCC, CCVC) and syllable sequences (real words and readable nonwords). PMT will aim to engage 5 modalities: visual, acoustic, tactile kinesthetic, motor, and orthographic. Multisyllabic stimuli used during treatment will consist of 40 real words and 68 readable nonword letter strings.

Stationary ergometer cycling at 60% heart rate range for 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes of warm up and cool down.

Light stretching activities targeting the head/neck, shoulder, elbow/forearm, hand/wrist, trunk/hip, ankle/foot.