Inclusion Criteria:  Participants will be age 18 or older. Participants will have an existing diagnosis of aphasia subsequent to left hemisphere stroke. Participants will be within the first year after stroke onset.  Exclusion Criteria:  Participants with a history of other acquired or progressive neurological disease. Participants whose mean modality t-score falls below 40 on the spoken language comprehension subdomain of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. Participants with semantic memory impairments as determined by the cutoff of the semantic memory component of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. Participants with unmanaged drug /alcohol dependence. Participants with severe diagnose.d mood or behavioral disorders that require specialized mental health interventions