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We evaluated the feasibility of providing an intervention combining tDCS with SLT as a home-based and remotely supervised intervention.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Participants with confirmed PPA who had word-finding difficulties were recruited for an open-label observational study. The intervention consisted of 20 daily sessions over 1 month, each with 45-min of personalized word retrieval training. During the first 30-min, participants received tDCS over the left inferior frontal gyrus (anode F7, cathode O1) at 2.0 mA. Language measures were remotely administered at baseline and intervention end.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We enrolled 10 patients (age: 70 \u00b1 7 years; 60% male) with confirmed logopenic variant (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 2), semantic variant (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 2), or unspecified (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 6) PPA. The intervention was well-tolerated with no treatment-limiting adverse events. All participants completed all sessions, confirming the feasibility of the home-based treatment. There were no declines in language functioning measures, with improved naming for trained vs. untrained items (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.003) and a significant improvement in confrontation naming (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.016) from baseline to intervention end.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our case series demonstrates that home-based tDCS added to SLT is feasible for patients with PPA. However, larger controlled studies are required to confirm its effectiveness in slowing language decline and to fully determine the benefits of this approach. 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